Welcome to the U.S. Consulate General, Osaka-Kobe

The Consulate General consists of Administrative, Consular, Political/Economic, Commercial, and Public Affairs (the Kansai American Center) Sections, and an Agricultural Trade Office.

Osaka-Kobe's consular district includes 17 of Japan's 47 prefectures and is spread across the west-central regions of Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Hokuriku. Home to over one-fourth of Japan's 128 million people, the district includes five cities with populations exceeding 1 million residents, among them the commercial and port cities of Osaka and Kobe, along with the historic city of Kyoto.

Kansai - the six-prefecture region centered on Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and Nara - has long been considered as one of Japan's main industrial and commercial heartlands. Its 1996 gross regional product of $864 billion, if classified as an individual country's output, would rank as the world's seventh-largest, exceeding Canada's GDP. Kansai's share of Japan's exports and imports is about 19 percent. In 1995, Kansai imports from the United States reached $11 billion. There are 150 U.S. companies with operations in the Kansai area.