What is Yokohama doing to attract business?
Yokohama City has always played an important role as a business centre. Many Japanese global enterprises including Nissan Motor, Isuzu Motors, JGC Holdings Corporation, and Chiyoda Corporation have their headquarters in the city.
Our proactive efforts to attract businesses have also paid off with a large presence of international corporations, including names like Bosch, Samsung Electronics, and Caterpillar. Over the past two and a half years our city has received 266.2 billion yen worth of investments, which is more than 70 billion yen above the amount in the preceding four years.
Yokohama's advantages include its close proximity to the Greater Tokyo Area, with its large market of approximately 42m people easy access to domestic and international destinations and an abundance of talented human resources thanks to numerous universities and research institutes.
Last November we tapped into our wealth of corporate research labs and engineers by establishing Tech Hub Yokohama as a centre for supporting tech startups.