合併 and 統合: Merging organizations and integrating rosters
Compare a planned company merger with two rosters integrated into one table. Keep practice in gathering opinions about facility integration distinct from a completed integration.
Organizations merge
合併 means a merger or consolidation. 「二つの会社は来年四月に合併する予定だ。」 says two companies plan to merge next April. The organizations and future plan are stated.
「町村合併の後、役所の窓口が一か所に集約された。」 says government services were consolidated at one counter after the municipalities merged. It states a result following the merger.
Integrating materials or facilities
統合 means integration. 「二つの名簿を一つの表に統合した。」 reports integrating two rosters into one table. The materials and resulting form are explicit.
「施設の統合について住民役の意見を集める練習をした。」 describes practicing the gathering of opinions about facility integration from people playing residents. The opinions themselves were not integrated, and a real facility-integration decision is not reported.
Targets and states differ
The 合併 plan concerns combining companies, while the completed 統合 concerns combining rosters. These representative uses do not establish a strict legal-action versus technical-task division.
The rosters became one table, but the facility sentence describes practice in gathering opinions. A future merger plan, a completed table integration, and a role-play exercise are distinct.
What is combined in the 合併 plan and the roster 統合, and does the facility exercise report completed integration?
Show the answer and why
The plan concerns two companies, while the completed integration concerns two rosters becoming one table. The facility sentence describes practice in gathering opinions from people playing residents, rather than completed facility integration.