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Japan’s textile technology is in a leading position in the world, including textile machinery, clothing machinery, chemical fiber technology, dyeing finishing, new product development, brand design, marketing and many other fields. In particular, the prosperity of Japanese machinery and electronics industry has provided convenient conditions for the modernization of spinning machine/service machine, so as to perfect the combination of technology and fabric, and a variety of new high-quality fabrics emerge in an endless stream. Japan is home to world-renowned textile giants such as Toray, Zhong Fang, Toyo Textile, Longinica and Far East Textiles, which consistently rank among the world’s top 100 in terms of sales.

Japan led the world in textile technology, but its garment industry began to shrink after its peak, and its production scale and output became smaller. Japan has actually turned from a net exporter to a net importer of textiles and apparel. It is worth mentioning that Japan leads the world in chemical fiber technology, textile dyeing finishing, new product development, textile machinery and equipment, fashion brand design and management and marketing.

Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is one of the four fashion capitals of the world, home to many internationally famous fashion designers such as Issey Miyake. Osaka International Textile Machinery Exhibition is known as one of the four famous textile machinery exhibitions in the world. It is worth mentioning that Excellent design works developed by Japan are sent to developing countries with cheap labor force for processing, which has become the development path of Japanese garment enterprises.

Japan is the earliest developed textile industry in Asia, with the world’s latest textile technology, textile industry has played a huge role in the revitalization of Japanese economy. The Japanese textile industry has now abandoned the “mass production, low price, low level of technology” products, which are moved to foreign production, in the domestic focus on the production of high value-added fashion garments, clothing products and industrial, automotive, medical textiles and other profitable products. Japan imports 80 percent of its natural raw materials for textiles and 50 percent of its finished products such as clothing.

After more than 20 years of development, Japan’s high-tech fiber industry, especially functional fiber and super fiber, has been in a leading position in the world. In particular, Japan’s pan-based carbon fibers have accounted for 3/4 of the world’s total production capacity and 70% of its output.

It is worth mentioning that poly (aromatic ester) fiber, PBO fiber and poly (lactic acid) fiber originated from the United States at the earliest, but the final industrialization was finally realized in Japan. For example, super PVA fiber is also a high-tech fiber product unique to Japan.

Japan is a leading textile country, its fiber fabric products are not only high grade, advanced technology, excellent production, in the international market known for the design and color, small batch of humanized service. One of the most important fabric production bases in Japan is Ishikawa Prefecture, where the production of high value-added, high functional synthetic fibers, especially in the world fabric market leader. In addition, The quality of Japanese clothing products is rigorous, style avant-garde, in the world’s garment manufacturing technology leading position.

China and Japan are closely linked in textile industry. Textiles used to be the traditional bulk commodities exported by China to Japan. Japan was China’s largest textile export market, and China also used to be the main importer of Japanese textiles. China’s textile and garment products have an absolute share in Japan’s imports. Japan’s textile exports to China once accounted for more than 40% of its total exports. In the Japanese clothing market, the situation of “Made by The Chinese and worn by the Japanese” was once formed. Chinese apparel exports to Japan are still number one.

The Japanese textile and apparel market has great potential and no quota restrictions. In Japan’s textile and apparel import market, Chinese products used to account for about 70%, and have strong price and quality competitiveness. China has become a major source of Japan’s imports of garments and various types of textiles. In particular, China’s two yarn and two cloth products, except cotton yarn, are Japan’s fourth largest foreign supplier, and the other three kinds of goods are Japan’s first largest supplier, with market share of more than 50%. Cotton cloth and T/C fabric are the second largest suppliers to Japan, with a market share of 24.63% and 13.97%, respectively. Rayon ranked third and chemical fabric ranked first. It is worth noting that Japanese men’s wear makers had hoped to use China as their main source of worsted suit material.

Due to the high production cost in Japan and the labor wage level in the world, The Japanese textile and garment industry began to pay attention to the implementation of overseas strategy in recent years. Such as Japan’s small and medium-sized garment manufacturers have factories in China and other Asian countries, Japan’s famous garment factory strict mound region has almost all the domestic some or all of the transfer to China’s places such as Shanghai, nantong, jiangsu province and suzhou, cheap fabric sourcing in China, high-grade fabrics and accessories are to do processing and re-export. Many large Japanese garment manufacturers are planning to further expand their overseas production lines and implement a one-stop operation from production to retail, avoiding the complicated circulation links in Japan and organizing the development and design of new products themselves.

Japanese textile and garment market has great dependence on Chinese products. For a long time, Japan has imported a large number of textiles and garments from overseas, especially from China, which makes Japan’s traditional industrial structure of mass production center unable to maintain. Japan simply cannot compete with imports in the middle and lower end of the market. As a result, in the past 10 years, the number of Textile manufacturing enterprises and employment in Japan has decreased by 40-50%. On the other hand, the long-term accumulation of technology development and product planning capabilities of The Japanese textile industry make it occupy an increasingly important position in the field of high-end textiles.

For example, Japan’s fiber industry has recognized global leading advantages, which are embodied in the research and development and application of new fiber materials. In terms of RESEARCH and development, all Japanese enterprises from upstream to downstream have very high technology development capacity and commodity development capacity, especially the development of high-performance fiber and next-generation fiber, environmental protection and energy saving technology level is quite high, in these technical fields, Japan is at the world’s top level. It is worth mentioning that Japan is in the application of technology, a new material was developed and soon transformed into epoch-making new products, which is the biggest strength of Japan.