Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2017/04 -2020/03
Author : NODA Mitsuru
This study focuses on domestic sister city, clarifies the potential of community development in depopulated municipality. In this research, based on the questionnaire survey to the person in charge of the local government, the following 3 points were mainly clarified. 1)As a specific measure, courtesy visits, mutual exchanges, information dissemination, and sales of special products were observed at a large rate. 2)Although the evaluation of the efforts is generally high, there are issues such as lack of financial resources, human resources, motivation and distance between local governments. 3)The conditions that the other local governments want in the new agreement tend to emphasize the points that they can directly contribute to the development of regional development, such as the fact that they can share the strengths and weaknesses of the area and that they have Industrial common points.