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 one million residents, among them the commercial and port cities of Osaka and Kobe, and 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 export and imports is about 19 percent. In 1995, the Kansai's imports from the United States reached $11 billion. There are 150 U.S. companies with operations in the Kansai.

(Updated August 2000)