Abstract
Along the foot of the mountains in the western part of the Kanto Dist-rict are found about 10, 000 silk-and rayon-faetories scattered, with cities and towns such as Hachioji, Ome, Hanno, Ogawa, Tohorozawa and Chichibu as their centres. In this article the writer has dealt with the following three problems. (1) What historical and traditional structures have so far co-mbined with the local circumstances to form the present distribution of fa-ctories? (2) What productive structure has the industry? As to this probl-em, the labor, implement and kind of articles, have been qualitatively and quantitatively investigated. (3) What regional differentiation is seen in the textile industry in this area? And how the specialized or concomitant departments of the industry are closely co-operated with each other?
