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This book analyzes issues related to economic challenges for Japan's regional revitalization. Japan's responses to such challenges and to the problem of an aging population are of deep interest to the nations outside of Japan. This book brings together 19 articles contributed by Japan's leading scholars, originally prepared for an online policy information portal, SPACE NIRA launched by the Nippon Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA) with Dr. Tatsuo Hatta, President of the Asian Growth Research Institute, as its General Editor. This book is a significant and useful reference for all scholars, students, and individuals with an interest in current policy issues in Japan.
Contents
1. Agricultural Policy: Supporting the New Developments in Japan's Agriculture.- 2. A New Direction for Agriculture in Japan.- 3. Japan's Agricultural Policy: Escaping the Ancien Régime.- 4. Fishing Policy: Toward Introduction of Science-based Measurement/Management of Resources.- 5. Introduction of an Individual Quota (IQ) System to Japan's Fishing Industry: An Economic Analysis.- 6. Revitalization of Japan's Fishing Industry: A Legal Perspective—The Cases of Rishiri and Rebun Islands.- 7. Tourism Strategy towards 2020: Promotion of Tourism and the Revitalization of Regional Areas.- 8. Creation of DMOs to Promote Inbound Tourism: Methods and Issues.- 9. Towards the Relaxation of Regulations on Minpaku in Japan.- 10. Local Government Financing of Health Insurance and the Revitalization—Facilitating Migration of the Elderly.- 11. Designing New Systems Through Risk Adjustment.- 12. Health Care, Long-term Care, and Local Public Finances: Intergovernmental Financing of Social Insurance Programs.- 13. Provision of National Health Insurance "Model Benefits" to Japan's Prefectures.- 14. Measures to Address Japan's Low Birth Rate.- 15. Marriage and Childcare in the Metropolitan Areas: A Comparison of Sapporo City and the Greater Fukuoka Area.- 16. Childcare and Measures Targeting Japan's Low Birth Rate: What Effect Can the Decentralization of Authority Have on the Birth Rate?.- 17. Good and Bad Fiscal Decentralization.- 18. Examining Functions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer.- 19. Decentralization Reform and Property Tax in Japan: A Consideration of the Benefit Principle.
