Jobs in Chiba

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in Tokyo. Thirty-six cities are located in Chiba Prefecture, its capital city being Chiba city. Chiba borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north at the Tone River, Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture to the west at the Edo River, the Pacific Ocean to the east and Tokyo Bay around its southern boundary. Most of Chiba lies on the hilly Bosso Peninsula a region on the east coast Chiba is one of Japan’s largest industrial areas because of the coastline on the Tokyo Bay which is relatively long

Chiba’s population is one of the wealthiest in Japan due to the prefecture’s strong commercial and industrial sectors. It has the fifth-highest GPD in the country. 70% of the population is employed in the service sector, with 25% in industry and 5% in agriculture. The service sector provides job opportunities that include fireman, drivers, general workers, nurses, doctors, lab assistants, teachers, policeman, cooks in restaurants, school cafeterias and hotels, receptionists, secretaries and lawyers.

Kawasaki Steel factory is located in Chiba and as a result gave rise to more industries, factories and warehouses and docks in the area. There are three main industries in Chiba namely chemical production, petrochemical refining, and machine production they account for forty-five percent of Chiba’s exports. They are also helping in the development of the prefecture locally as well. These industries are responsible for a high rate of employment. Varieties of job opportunities are available and are not limited. The factories that indulge in the main industries are more than a hundred distributed in several cities in the prefecture. Factories are inevitably a large employer because of the vast activities that take place within which require intensive human labor. Technicians responsible for the actual manufacturing are required in all the industries those qualifying for each different industry.

In the chemical industry, biochemists, pharmacists, are jobs offered. Environmentalists and chemists versed with petroleum in the petrochemical industry and engineers in machine production. The job opportunities common in all three industries include accountants, administrators, receptionists, supervisors and secretaries.

Industry is the underlying economic factor in the prefecture but not the only one. Agriculture is also practiced and produces Japan’s second highest agricultural output to Hokkaido. Farmers, laborers during harvest and planting seasons are job opportunities in this sector. Vegetable production is the main produce in the area and possibly in the nation. In the processing sector, technicians, food scientists and supervisors are job opportunities available.



Posted by on Nov.23, 2008, under Jobs in Japan

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