浜松地域繊維産業の特異な発展

産元の情報機能を中心に

抄録

The former three major local industries in the Hamamatsu area; the textile, musical instrument and transport machine industries, have changed their roles significantly as the economic environment has shifted. The textile industry especially had lead the economy in the Hamamatsu area throughout the time before and after the World War II.
However, the textile production and the gross output have been decreasing to the present day, after reaching the peak in the early 1970s.
The textile industry in the Hamamatsu area has centralized in producing and processing fabrics, and has comprised of the three main mid-stream businesses; weaving, dyeing & finishing, and “SANMOTO.” This mid-stream businesses also have included other preliminary sectors such as yarn dyeing, yarn twisting, sizing and warping, so that the textile industry in this area has retained the highly-developed division structure. Specifically the “SANMOTO” have functioned as a leading sector in the textile industry, and have undertaken the projects of new products production control and securing markets.
Affected by the declining textile industry in Japan, the textile industry in the Hamamatsu area has been suffering from the severe demands for the diversified products, downsizing lot production and short-term production, and the production itself has been decreasing. Consequently “SANMOTO” cannot secure the same amount of business for the weaving and dyeing & finishing sectors as before. Some of the textile producers started to separate from “SANMOTO”, attempting to emerge from the piecework situation, and “SANMOTO” themselves has begun to do business with the areas other than Hamamatsu.
Considering the Hamamatsu area as an industrial cluster, this research tries to verify whether the current movement of “SANMOTO” and other manufacturing sectors in the textile industry would cause the corruption of the cluster, or, on the contrary, would result in its reconstruction.
Also this research is going to reveal the information function and competitiveness of “SANMOTO”, and to specify its role in the textile industry as well as in the economy in the Hamamatsu area. Additionally, reconsidering the history of the textile industry in this area, I also consider the hints for the solutions of the current issues.