manufacturing

Japanese: manufacturing
manufacturing

...Industries also include businesses that use products produced in other industries as raw materials or parts and further process them to produce new products. While agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and mining are businesses that mainly use nature to grow products or extract materials that exist in nature to produce products, industries are also called manufacturing industries or manufacturing because they create new useful products by processing other products in various ways or combining several other products. Products produced in industries are either consumed by humans or used as raw materials, parts, or machines in other businesses. In this sense, construction businesses such as houses, buildings, and bridges are not included in industries.

*Some terminology explanations that mention "manufacturing" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また,他の工業で生産された製品を原材料や部品として用い,さらに加工して新しい製品を生産する事業も工業である。農林水産業や鉱業が,主として自然を利用して生産物を育成したり,自然界に存在する物を取り出して生産物を生み出す事業であるのに対し,工業は他の生産物に種々な加工を施したり,他のいくつかの生産物を組み合わせたりして,新しい有用な生産物を作り出すので,製造工業あるいは製造業manufacturingとも呼ばれる。工業で生産された生産物は,人間によって消費されるか,他の事業で原材料,部品に機械として利用されるものであり,この意味で,住宅,ビルディング,橋などの建設事業は工業に含まれない。…

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