A report analyzing corporate capital investment trends in the Chubu region.
The survey was conducted with a deadline of July 3, 2025, targeting companies headquartered in the Chubu region (Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shizuoka, and Nagano prefectures) and companies outside the region investing in the Chubu region, specifically private companies with capital of 100 million yen or more, conducting large-scale capital investment trend surveys. The survey content aggregates 2024 fiscal year capital investment results and 2025 fiscal year capital investment plans on a construction basis, conducting detailed analysis reflecting the industrial clustering and regional characteristics of the Chubu region.
Based on the industrial structure characteristics of the Chubu region, investment trends were analyzed in major fields including automotive-related industries, machinery, chemical, textile, and food manufacturing. Particularly, utilizing the characteristics of the Chubu region as Japan's largest manufacturing cluster, capital investment is rapidly expanding in advanced technology fields including next-generation automotive technology, aerospace industry, and machine tool industry, with reports of further strengthening of the position as world-class "Manufacturing Chubu."
In automotive-related industries, large-scale capital investment is active toward development and production of next-generation vehicles including electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHV), and fuel cell vehicles (FCV), with confirmation of rapid expansion in investment in battery manufacturing equipment, charging infrastructure, and autonomous driving technology demonstration equipment.
In machinery, the introduction of smart manufacturing systems using AI and IoT technologies is progressing in machine tools, industrial robots, and precision equipment fields, confirming implementation of advanced capital investment toward productivity and quality improvement.
In aerospace industry, investment is planned in expanding production capacity for civilian aircraft parts, strengthening space-related equipment development and production systems, and developing R&D equipment for new material and technology commercialization, with reports of competitiveness enhancement in Chubu region aerospace industry clusters.
In chemical industry, capital investment is increasing toward new material development and manufacturing, environmentally responsive chemical product production, and product development using biotechnology, confirming progress in technological innovation toward sustainable society realization.
Regional economic ripple effects are expected including large-scale employment creation from capital investment, promoting clustering of related industries, accelerating technological innovation, and advanced human resource development and securing, playing important roles in further strengthening economic foundations centered on Chubu region manufacturing.
The article evaluates this as the most important indicator for understanding investment trends in the Chubu region, the core of Japanese manufacturing, providing indispensable information for national industrial policy formulation and corporate strategic investment decisions.