The electronics industry is one of the most important manufacturing industries in Japan and an essential export component to the economy. Although the rise of China and other east Asian countries as producers of electronic products has shifted some of the manufacturing away from Japan, the country remains a significant innovator and manufacturer of electronic products globally.
In this article, we look at the development of electronic product manufacturing in Japan using a dataset from the Japanese Electronics and IT Industries Association, a dataset which we recently added to the Macrobond database.