Fundamental Analysis on Reforming retail Sales Regulation for Kyoto and Shiga Prefecture and Revitalizing Downtown Areas Trough Retail Sales Activities

2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 11791007
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for University and Society Collaboration
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: 経済政策(含経済事情)
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: HIRATA Junichi Ritsumeikan Univ., Dept. of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (00143818)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KONDO Koichi Ritsumeikan Univ., Dept. of Business Admi.on, Assistant Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (50298717) ; KINOSITA Akihiro Ritsumeikan Univ., Dept. of Business Administration, Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (60247806) ; SAITO Masayuki Ritsumeikan Univ., Dept. of Business Administration, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (50186962) ; YAMAZAKI Masafumi Ritsumeikan Univ., Depart. os Science and Engineering Professor, 理工学部, 教授 (40109038) ; TSUKAGUCHI Hirosi Ritsumeikan Univ., Depart. os Science and Engineering Professor, 理工学部, 教授 (80127258)
• Project Period (FY): 1999 – 2001
• Keywords: Retaile Sales / Kyoto Prefecture / Shiga Prefecture / City of Kyoto / Fushimi Area / City of Kusatsu / Revitalization of Doentown Area / Reguration on Retail Sales

Research Abstract

In this research we mainly considered on Kyoto Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture and City of Kyoto for their retail sales activities.
To promote our research we co-operated each local government officers to get current regulatory activities on retail sales especially regulation on big stores. While we engaged in this research project, regulation procedure on big stores had changed at the same time Japanese retail sales activities has changed.
On regulation procedure, it has been liberalized from traditional regulation oriented way to as long as big stores are accommodated surrounding environment. However, this new procedure has not been established yet, thus we studied together with local government offices and other region's procedures.
On retail sales activities, within last couple of years, several big corporations which had dominated recent retail sales activities has bankrupted or required heavy rebuilding program.
To understand those changes in retail sales activities we engaged statistical analysis of regional retail sales activities. Then we chose main target area as Fushimi area in city of Kyoto and downtown of City of Kusatsu. We engaged several researches on these areas. We did traffic research on both walkers and car users. Then we asked several questions for each area's visitors on their shopping activities in total and regional shopping activities. Also, we asked regional residents for their shopping activities in total.
In our research repot, we corvine those result all together. We are going to continue this research with our universities fund, then refine those results, and try to derive meaningful conclutions more.