東京東北郊における小規模工場による技術集団
埼玉県八潮市を中心として
1993 年 45 巻 2 号 p. 139-155
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1993 年 45 巻 2 号 p. 139-155
After World War II, the enforcement of a policy of relocation resulted in many manufacturing plants being transferred to adjacent suburban areas. In the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, the development of the northeastern area lagged behind that of the southwest. Yashio has developed as a unique and distinctive industrial city in the northeastern suburbans. The majority of the plants of Yashio City made their start in the 1960s during the period of rapid economic growth in eastern Tokyo and sprouted up like weeds.
Although there were no particularly large-scale plants, there were innumerable plants which engaged in a wide range of various metal processing, in an interlocking relationship as a technical complex. As a complicated but exceedingly strong supporting complex of subcontractors, this interlocking group of plants provided a very strong subcontracting network supporting the development of large corporate factories which produced finished products. This high level engineering group found its support from the management and their families, who shared an entrepreneurial spirit in manufacturing plants and engineering together with the employees who together shared and formed a strong social relationship to comprise a fortified industrial community. In the metropolitan area, there are many industrial cities supported by industrial complexes of large scale factories which have been established in accordance with a prearranged plan. However there are no other industrial cities comparable with Yashio City, sustained by such a complex of small-scale processors with such abundant vitality.
In recent years, Japanese industry has been undergoing a change in character as it grows. This amazing development of Japanese machinery manufacturing has been supported by the industrial complex which has been represented by the materials processing groups as a base. The further development of the machinery industry will continue to require a superior group of processing complexes. Today the machinery industry is becoming established in the outskirts of the Greater Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Yashio City is expected to play an important role as a new hardware center which responds to the diverse requirements of the machinery industry in the northern and eastern parts of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
