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Higashiosaka
[ hee-gah-shee-aw-sah-kah; English hi-gah-shee-oh-sah-kuh ]
noun
- a city on S Honshu, in Japan, W of Osaka.
Example Sentences
A worker checks machinery at a factory in Higashiosaka, Japan June 23, 2022.
The workshops in Higashiosaka create metal components for everything from train seats to ballpoint pens, and have long relied on powerhouses such as Sharp, Panasonic, and Sanyo for orders.
The small factories in the western Japanese city of Higashiosaka for decades fuelled the thundering rise of the country's biggest brands - but a weak yen and rising costs have accelerated a slow decline, and are reshaping the industrial heartland.
The region around Higashiosaka has a history as a manufacturing hub dating back hundreds of years.
That is why she is turning her own business on its head to protect her bottom line and help manufacturers in Higashiosaka.
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