From olden times, in Shikoku Island, unique industries such as Japanese paper, salt, and copper industries had been prosperous with her geographical situations for a background.Nowadays the modern industries, namely fibre, paper, pulp, metals for machines and chemical industries are making a sudden rise.Nevertheless Shikoku is still behind others in the progress and development of mineral and chemical industry judging from the level of the wholeJapan's industry.In this paper, a detailed review is given concerning the above points.
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