A report analyzing corporate capital investment trends in the Kanto region.
The survey was conducted with a deadline of July 3, 2025, targeting companies headquartered in the Kanto region (1 metropolis and 6 prefectures) and companies outside the region investing in the Kanto region, specifically private companies with capital of 100 million yen or more, conducting large-scale capital investment trend surveys. The survey method used postal and web-based questionnaire formats, collecting detailed data on 2024 fiscal year capital investment results and 2025 fiscal year capital investment plans.
Reflecting the economic scale and industrial clustering characteristics of the Kanto region, investment trends were analyzed across a wide range of industries including manufacturing, information and communications, finance, real estate, transportation, and retail. Particularly, confirming active capital investment for strengthening core functions of the Tokyo metropolitan area and enhancing status as international business hubs, with reports of rapid expansion in investment in fields including digital transformation (DX), decarbonization, and business continuity planning (BCP) response.
In manufacturing fields, large-scale capital investment is planned in semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing, automotive-related industries, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and food manufacturing, confirming positive investment attitudes toward technological innovation and productivity improvement. Additionally, reports show significant increases in investment toward smart factory conversion using artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies, robot technology introduction, and construction of environmentally considerate production systems.
In non-manufacturing sectors, capital investment is active in data center construction and expansion, logistics facility automation and efficiency, office building modernization, and commercial facility conversion to experiential stores, confirming development of investment strategies responding to digital economy progress and changing consumer needs.
Regional economic ripple effects are quantitatively evaluated including large-scale employment creation from capital investment, promoting clustering of advanced human resources, inducing investment in related industries, and increasing tax revenue, demonstrating important roles in driving overall Japanese economic growth.
The article evaluates this as the most important indicator for understanding investment trends in the Kanto region, the center of Japanese economy, providing indispensable information for national economic policy formulation and corporate strategic investment decisions.