From handmade goods to industrial production, Japan’s neighborhood factories offer more than just jobs—they play a crucial role in creating sustainable, socially connected communities.
Thank you for the article, it was very interesting to learn how much local production can improve human life!
In the place where I live, there are actually production facilities operating next to residential area. A furniture factory, auto repair shops, and a frozen food factory.
These are large production facilities that supply many cities with various products.
At the same time, I would like to see more local factories nearby, hand-made production, which would help develop the local neighborhood (and create less noise than these giga-factories).
Perhaps I would open a small production facility here someday to make fermented products: sauerkraut, kimchi, miso, soy sauce. I think such local production would be useful and relevant for the place where I live.
That's good thinking. We were just talking today with some friends here about how fermented things taste so much better when they are made in our neighborhoods, in small batches, in cozy buildings, etc... I remember a town called Itoshima in Kyushu where a guy who studied microbiology suddenly realized how good the old style of making soy sauce is, because of the naturally occurring microbial life. He lamented that very few places made it this way anymore, so he started a really good little soy sauce factory in that town.
Hey, that might be a good topic for the next story :-)
Thank you for the article, it was very interesting to learn how much local production can improve human life!
In the place where I live, there are actually production facilities operating next to residential area. A furniture factory, auto repair shops, and a frozen food factory.
These are large production facilities that supply many cities with various products.
At the same time, I would like to see more local factories nearby, hand-made production, which would help develop the local neighborhood (and create less noise than these giga-factories).
Perhaps I would open a small production facility here someday to make fermented products: sauerkraut, kimchi, miso, soy sauce. I think such local production would be useful and relevant for the place where I live.
That's good thinking. We were just talking today with some friends here about how fermented things taste so much better when they are made in our neighborhoods, in small batches, in cozy buildings, etc... I remember a town called Itoshima in Kyushu where a guy who studied microbiology suddenly realized how good the old style of making soy sauce is, because of the naturally occurring microbial life. He lamented that very few places made it this way anymore, so he started a really good little soy sauce factory in that town.
Hey, that might be a good topic for the next story :-)