KUMAMOTO, Japan -- As Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. eyes a second plant in southwestern Japan and suppliers look to follow, a challenge has emerged to policymakers' hopes for a bigger chip industry hub: land.
The world's largest chip foundry is building its first Japanese fabrication facility in the farming town of Kikuyo, Kumamoto prefecture, attracting other projects to the area, such as a massive Sony Group image sensor factory.
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