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Most manufacturing activity is confined to an industrial-urban belt run­ning from the Tokyo metropolitan region southward to northern part of Kyushu Is­land within which are located four of Japan's largest industrial nodes: Tokyo- Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe-Osaka, and Kitakyushu. In addition, an almost con­tinuous series of manufacturing towns flank the Inland Sea. A few secondary manufacturing districts are located in both [...]

Prior to the Communist take­over, manufacturing activity in China was very limited, consisting in the manufacture of textiles, metal goods, and of goods pro­duced by its handicraft (cottage) industry. Since 1950 the Communist government has paid particular attention to the devel­opment of modernized industry, with the result that the overall industrial output has grown at a rate averaging 10 percent [...]