The Taiwanese boss of an auto component-maker in the Okinawan city of Uruma is confident that his decision to come to the island prefecture was the right one.

¡°If you have production bases in Okinawa, your products will be labeled ¡®made in Japan¡¯ and become more competitive,¡± Johnnie Lin, president of Nippon Hishiyama, said last month before a group of some 30 representatives from Taiwanese semiconductor and medical equipment manufactures.

Nippon Hishiyama is the first foreign manufacturer to set up a business in an industrial development zone in Uruma and is attracting the attention of other Taiwanese firms.