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About Nagano Prefecture

Land/Nature

・	Located in the geographic center of Japan, and surrounded by majestic mountains soaring some 3000 meters high, Nagano Prefecture is nicknamed the “roof of Japan.”
・	The seasonal variations of Nagano’s exquisite nature, together with its rich cultural heritage,have brought our prefecture close to the hearts of the many visitors we receive each year.
・	The prefecture stretches 120km from east to west, 212km from north to south, and is 13,562 square kilometers in area, making it the forth largest in Japan.

Population

・	2,182,190 people（as of Oct 1, 2007）
・	Number of households:793,023（as of Oct 1, 2007）
・	Ratio of the elderly (over 65 years old) to the total population: 23.8％ (2005)(14th in Japan)

Labor

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The employment rate（*1）（61.3％）,and the elderly employment rate（*2）（29.9％）are highest in Japan.(2005)

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The female employment rate（*3）（51.1％）is second highest. (2005)

（*1）The number of employed persons in proportion to the population over 15 years old.
（*2）The number of employed persons over 65 years old in proportion to the population over 65 years old.
（*3）The number of female employed persons in proportion to the female population over 15 years old.

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Industrial Distribution of Employment（2005）

Type of Industry	Percentage	Rank in Japan
Primary Industry	11.5％	7th
Secondary Industry	31.1％	11th
Tertiary Industry	57.4％	47th

Agriculture

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The number of farm households of 126,857 (2005) is ranked number one in Japan.

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Value of Agricultural Production（2005）

（unit：￥100 million（％））

Farming Production Value　￥273.5 billion（Ranked 11th Nationwide）
Vegetables 609 (22.3％)	Rice 536 (19.6％)	Fruit 524 (19.2％)	Cultivated Mushrooms 439 (16.1％)	Livestock 328 (12.0％)	Flowers 185 (6.8％)	Other 114 (4.0％)

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Major Agricultural Outputs in Nagano Prefecture（2005）

Apples　182,600t（2nd in Japan）	Carnations　　　　　　92.2 mill. pieces（Top in Japan）
Grapes　 32,500t（2nd in Japan）	Enoki-Mushroom　　　 63,600t （Top in Japan）
Lettuce　176,300t（Top in Japan）	Bunashimeji-Mushroom 42,500t （Top in Japan）
Celery 　 13,600t（Top in Japan）

Industry

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Nagano Prefecture is Japan’s foremost manufacturing center for high-tech and precision machinery industries.（Nagano is a world’s leading producer of precision instruments including watches and personal computer-related devices.）

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Manufacturing Shipment Value：￥6,402.2 billion（2006）（18th in Japan）

[Manufacturing Shipment Value by Category]
◇Processing and Assembly Industry　72.1％
《Breakdown》

（1）	Communication Machinery/Apparatus	18.5％ (telecommunication equipment,electronic calculators, etc.)
（2）	Electronic parts/Device production	17.6％
（3）	General Machinery	5.0％ ( metal processing machinery, machine tools for specialized industry, etc.)
(4)	Electric Machinery/Apparatus	9.3％ (Input/output device(printer, display Scanner, etc.), small motor, etc)
(5)	Transportation Equipment	7.1％ (automobiles・auto parts)
(6)	Precision Machinery	4.5％ (watches/watch parts, meters/measuring instruments, etc.)

◇Materials Industry 14.9％（timber/Wood Products）
◇Consumer-related Industry 12.9％（foodstuffs,beverages/tobacco/animal feed）

Trade

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The export shipment value in 2006：￥1,558.8 billion

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The top industry in export: Communication machinery with the export value of ￥490.4 billion（31.5％ of the total export value）

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Shipment Value by Export Counterpart（Top 5）（2006）

Rank	Country Name	Export Value (million)	Percentage	Compared to Previous Year
1	USA	￥368.2	23.6％	80.6％
2	China (Hong Kong of the total)	￥333.4 ￥139.0	21.4％ 8.9％	101.6％ 91.5％
3	Germany	￥103.1	6.6％	113.0％
4	Korea	￥100.9	6.5％	113.6％
5	France	￥86.2	5.5％	88.2％

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Overseas direct investment by Nagano Prefecture-related manufacturing companies

◇Direct investment during 2006（new establishments）
　29 business establishments were newly opened overseas (25 companies）. In terms of country, China with 12 establishments (41.4％), including Hong Kong (1 establishments), saw the highest rate of the establishments.

◇Direct investment at year end 2006（Total Number）
　The total number of overseas offices stands at 976 (276 companies). In terms of country, China with 399 business establishments (40.9％) including Hong Kong (100 establishments) is the highest.

Economy

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Change in Real Economic Growth Rate　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　（unit：％）

Fiscal Year	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Nagano Prefecture	5.9	-3.9	-0.4	3.2	2.1
Japan	2.8	-0.8	1.1	2.3	1.7

The Japanese economy showed signs of improving again, with the good performance in the first half of fiscal 2004 due to the growing private demand such as individual consumption and investment, although it had a temporary negative impact of the global adjustment in the IT–related industry in the　latter half of the year.
As a result, the nation’s economy grew by 0.5 ％ in nominal terms, and 1.7％ in real terms.

Nagano Prefecture’s economy did not see a full-fledged recovery as private demands such as individual consumption remained flat. However, trends continued picking up especially in the production industry.
As a result, the nominal economic growth rate decreased by 0.7％, and the real term rate increased by 2.1％ which made a back-to-back increase from the previous year.

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Per capita income of citizens of Nagano Prefecture 　　　　　　　　　　　　　（unit：￥1,000／％）

Fiscal year	2000		2001		2002		2003		2004
Fiscal year	-	Yr/Yr	-	Yr/Yr	-	Yr/Yr	-	Yr/Yr	-	Yr/Yr
Prefecture	3,083	3.6	2,847	-7.7	2,726	-4.3	2,743	0.6	2,733	-0.4
National	2,929	1.2	2,837	-3.1	2,790	-1.7	2,807	0.6	2,826	0.7
Comparison to national	105.3	-	100.4	-	97.7	-	97.7	-	96.7	-

Citizen’s per capita income of Nagano Prefecture is ￥2.737mil., an increase by 1.0％ from the previous year. It is 94.7％ of the national average of ￥2.848 mil.

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Change in Gross Product in Nagano Prefecture （unit：￥100 Million,(％) ）

Fiscal Year	2002	2003	2004
Primary Industry	1,709（2.1％）	1,627（2.0％）	1,649（2.1％）
Secondary Industry	26,292（32.8％）	26,316（32.7％）	26,176（32.8％）
Tertiary Industry	56,318（70.2％）	56,297（70.0％）	55,404（69.4％）
Other（※）	-4,086（-5.1％）	-3,872（-4.8％）	-3,439 （-4.3％）
Total	80,233	80,368	79,7898

※ Other：tax/tariffs on imports, consumption tax (deductible items）on gross capital formation, and imputed interest（deductible items）.

The fiscal 2004 gross domestic product in Nagano Prefecture decreased by 0.7％ year-on-year in real terms to ￥7,978.9 bill.
Industry wise, the primary industry saw an increase of 1.3％ from the previous year to ￥164.9 bill.
Secondary industry decreased by 0.5％ year-on-year to ￥2,617.6 bill. This is because businesses in the construction industry as the main factor decreased, although manufacturing industries such as electric machinery and precision machinery improved due to the increase in export.
The gross product in the tertiary industry also decreased by 1.6 ％ from the previous year to ￥5,540.4 bill, as business services decreased despite the increase in public services.

Health・Medical Care

・	Average life expectancy of males is 79.69 years, the highest in Japan, with an average of 86.65 years for females, the third highest in Japan (2005).
・	Annual per-capita medical expenses for the aged in 2005 were ￥672,853, the lowest nationwide.

Education

・	The number of high school graduates who advanced to universities (faculty) in March 2007 was 10,114, showing a percentage of 49.2％ (27th throughout Japan with the average, 51.2％). This was an increase of 1.3 point from the previous year.

Tourism

・	Japan,situated on the pacific rim of volcanic regions, has numerous hot springs, of which 215 are located in Nagano Prefecture (2nd in Japan as 2002), drawing many vacationers each year.
・	During 2006, the number of people visiting tourist destinations in Nagano Prefecture was 87.56 million, spending a total of ￥324.1 billion.

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