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The purpose of the study is to measure efficiency and meta-technology ratio for the manufacturing industries of Korean South-Eastern area and Japanese Kyushu area under regional technology, pooling technology, and meta-technology based on stochastic frontier function. The study mainly focused on the main growth factors of two areas, the leading area of meta-frontier, and the distributions of two area's meta-technology ratios. The production of Korean South-Eastern area mostly depended on the physical inputs, whereas that of Japanese Kyushu area relied on technology progress. Two areas reported the similar levels of regional technical efficiency but, Korean South-Eastern area leaded meta-frontier with relatively high meta technical efficiency. The meta-technology ratios in South-Eastern area are close to 1 with small standard deviation, while those in Kyushu area are far away from 1 with large standard deviation.