The company sees Japan's Yokohama as a fast-rising international city, and considers this as an advantage in helping the company cooperate with the industrial cluster in the priority market, and subsequently, secure human resources who would support the growth of the company in the future.

Kyocera Corporation is renovating the existing building at the Shiga Yasu Plant in Shiga Prefecture to build Medical Development Center. The construction started in August with completion slated in December. In April 2017, Kyocera integrated Kyocera Medical Corporation to Kyocera Group in order to expand its medical business, which is a main business along with the solar business in the life and environment sector. At Medical Development Center, engineers pursue synergy with the Kyocera Group's key devices and accelerate the development of new products for medical and healthcare.

Table 1: Leading electronic components manufacturers strengthen R&D facilities.



Kyocera merges product technology for artifi cial joints, for which the company secures roughly half of the global market, and for burying, such as dental implants, and electronic devices technology, which is the company's forte. The company endeavors to develop medical and healthcare devices with new functions, such as new artifi cial ear (artifi cial hearing cuticle).

Nidec Corporation is constructing Nidec Central Technical Laboratory's fi rst-phase building with six stories and a total fl oor area of 23,500sq.m in Keihanna Science City in Kyoto Prefecture. Construction started in Dec. 2016 with completion slated in Jan. 2018. In total, the company will invest about ¥30 billion (US$262.80 million).

Shigenobu Nagamori, Chairman of the Board, President & Chief Executive Offi cer of Nidec Corporation, says, "We will conduct basic and applied research on manufacturing and help revive Japan's manufacturing sector. Construction of the second-phase building is slated between 2020 and 2025. We intend the facility to become the largest production technology research institute among those of private companies in Japan with 1,000 production technology research developers."


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