IRIE, Hiroaki
The Bulletin of Kindai University Junior College Division 近畿大学短期大学部 53 (1) 15 - 24 2020/12
In the Kansai region, more and more people are moving across administrative boundaries. In addition, the transportation infrastructure has been improving. As a result, the flow of goods and services across administrative regions, in other words, interregional trade, has been increasing in recent years. Organizations such as the Union of Kansai Governments and the Kansai Tourism Bureaus have been formed to deal with wide-area administrative issues that transcend the administrative areas of each prefecture. When analyzing these situations, interregional input-output tables are useful as statistics providing data on interregional trade across administrative regions. In the Kansai region, the Kansai interregional input-output table was developed by the Asia Pacific Research Institute in 2011.In this paper, we first examine inter-municipal cooperation and the economic situation of each prefecture in the greater Kansai region. Next, we measure the interregional balances of each prefecture in the Kansai region using the 2011 Kansai Interregional Input-Output table. The results show the following. First, Osaka, Shiga, Mie, and Fukui prefectures had a surplus in the interregional balance of trade. Second, except for Osaka Prefecture, the industries with large interregional surpluses in each prefecture are predominantly in the manufacturing industry. In Osaka Prefecture, the tertiary industry, such as the commercial sector, has a large interregional surplus. Third, between 2005 and 2011, there was no structural change in the overall interregional balance of payments for each prefecture. However, there were some significant changes in some regions, such as between Osaka and Hyogo prefectures.