The Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) hosted the 2025 Taiwan-Japan Technology Summit in Taipei on September 9, 2025, during which Hideyuki Okano, executive director and head of research at the Kyushu Economic Research Center, highlighted the impact of TSMC’s Kumamoto plant on the economic and industrial landscape of Kyushu. The semiconductor industry supply chain is estimated to have generated JPY23 trillion (US$156 billion) in economic impact, and Kyushu authorities are accelerating plans to cultivate semiconductor talent, with a target of 1.4 million people.