Japan'S Largest Garment Factory Is Closed! Japanese Clothing Industry Wants " Cool "

Japanese garment enterprises have been struggling in the Chinese market in recent years.

Because of the sluggish sales, Itokin, a big clothing company, decided to pull out of China, and Honeys, a women's clothing company with many stores, is closing.

However,

According to the Japan economic news report, Japanese domestic clothing is also facing the risk of disappearance.

The biggest jeans manufacturer closes the factory.

Should Japanese clothing industry be "cool"?

Japan's largest

At the end of May this year, two factories in Japan were shut down.

One of them is the Xiang Ye factory in Tianjin Light City, Aomori, which has less than 40 employees and produces jeans ranging from several thousand yen to more than 20 thousand yen.

EDWIN plans to integrate the plant with the Aomori factory in Tianjin, while volunteered at two factories.

In addition, the Hechuan factory in Akita county was closed at the end of May.

EDWIN closing the factory may be just Japan.

A microcosm.

In fact, the scale of garment production in Japan has been shrinking in recent years.

In 2017, Japan's domestic production dropped to about 98 million 400 thousand.

Although the figure has been decreasing year by year in the past 20 years, the number remained above 200 million before 2008, but this year it fell below 100 million mark for the first time.

China and other countries have significant competitive advantages.

Japan's garment industry "local manufacturing" almost disappeared?

Japan's domestic garment industry is heading for a low tide, which is closely related to the influx of overseas clothing products.

According to statistics from the Japan Textile Importers Association, the import penetration rate of Japanese domestic clothing imports was 97.6% in 2017 and a record high for 5 consecutive years.

Because of the increase in imports from Asian countries such as China, the proportion of imports has risen by more than 25 percentage points from 20 years ago.

At present, the clothing retail giants represented by the fast selling group of UNIQLO parent company are expanding the production of overseas factories, and gradually pferred from China, Vietnam and other major production bases to countries with lower labor costs, such as Ethiopia and Bangladesh.

Ryui Masa, chairman and CEO of XXX group, has said that the introduction of the minimum wage system in Ethiopia can further reduce production costs and enhance product price competitiveness.

In addition to cost differences such as labor costs, overseas factories, under the guidance of Japanese technology, have achieved the same quality as Japan in dyeing and sewing processes, which has made Japanese production lose obvious advantages.

The brand GU, which is also a fast selling brand, focuses on China and Vietnam, improves the technical capabilities of its employees, and develops a low price production system that integrates popular elements into commodities.

In Ryui Masa's words, "Asian factories have a very strong staff capacity", and the Japanese factory workers are in short supply.

The more obvious the loss of competitive advantage is, the more domestic it is.

The scale decreased from 15 trillion yen to 10 trillion yen from the bubble economy period, and the supply volume increased from 2 billion to nearly 4 billion.

A large Japanese shirt manufacturer, Shan Xi, has said that if cheaper products do not rely more on factories in China and Laos, it will be difficult to compete with overseas products.

In Japan

Against the backdrop of defensive warfare, the Japanese government is also trying to attract overseas factories to return to China through new policies, but with little success.

After all, Japanese companies are unable to find a reason to abandon them in the face of the large number of cheap labor force in Asian countries and emerging markets in Africa.

In this way, Japan

The prophecy of the extinction of local manufacturing will soon become a fact.