抄録
This report is the first in a continuing study entitled, “Greater Tokyo the city and its industry”, which will excompass the next several years. The writer's colleagues, Mr. A. Takeuchi and Mr. S. Ide, have collaborated in this undertaking. The aims of this preliminary report - as attempted by the writing - are chiefly to delimit the boundaries of the Keihin Industrial Area.
The Keihin industrial area's two most prominent industrial activities are traditional, small-scale industry, and assembling. There is only minor dependence upon heavy industry, according to the writer's attempt to delimit activity, based on 1960 data for the assembly industries. Since then, however, the techniques employed became somewhat unreliable because of changes gradually brought about by the appearance here of new light industries.
Generally, however, it appears that industries attract population to cities, and that whether population swells depends on the levels of wages and salaries. Really large-scale industrialization is possible in the Keihin and Hanshin areas. Figure 2, showing the 1969 limits of Keihin Industrial Area, is in the right interior, and figure 3 shows the situation in 1960.
Compared to 1960 the past nine years has seen part of the industry of the Keihin area become more dispersed. Some of this development is rapid, though wages are low. Assembly industries find to lie in the northwest along Route 17, or in the southwest along Route 1. In the northeast along Route 4, on the other hand, are light industries, which reflect industrial nature of this sector.
