2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Reconstruct of the National Land Structure and the Port Policies : A Perspective Focusing on Introducing the Doshusei System and Promoting Economic Cooperation among the Areas Surrounding the Japan Sea
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19520681
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Takasaki City University of Economics |
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Principal Investigator |
TODOKORO Takashi Takasaki City University of Economics, 地域政策学部, 教授 (80066745)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMASHITA Hiroki 鳥取大学, 地域学部, 准教授 (00314568)
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| Research Collaborator |
YAGI Chigaku 上越市創造行政研究所, 副課長
UCHIUMI Iwao 上越市創造行政研究所, 主任
NOZAKI Takao 上越市創造行政研究所, 主任
MATSUBARA Ayumi 上越市創造行政研究所, 研究員
UEKI Chie 上越市創造行政研究所, 研究員
SASAGAWA Masatomo 上越市創造行政研究所, 副課長
KUDO Fumio 上越市創造行政研究所, 副課長
KANEKO Eiji 上越市創造行政研究所, 課長
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 地域政策 / 国土構造 |
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| Research Abstract |
This paper clarifies the necessity of increased decentralization and greater powers for regional blocks under the envisioned doshusei regional block system in the age of globalization. Growing economic exchanges among the cities in the Japan Sea Rim Region, which the global rise of Chinese economy has been invigorating, have made it inevitable that the Japanese government will accelerate efforts to facilitate the smoother economic exchanges between the Pacific Rim Regional Economic Zone and the Japan Sea Rim Economic Zone by developing new transportation networks across the Japanese archipelago interlinking the two Economic Zones. In particular, the belt zone from Hitachinaka to Naoetsu, which lies in the central part of Japan, is supposed to play an indispensable role in connecting the two. In order to make the most of the Hitachinaka-Naoetsu belt zone as an across-the-nation booster to restructure Japan's economic landscape, the Japanese government should develop a megalopolis in the integrated Northern Kanto-Shin-Etsu regional block by constructing networks among the established port cities and other cities in the zone. Putting the envisioned doshusei regional block system into effect, designating the Northern Kanto-Shin-Etsu regional block as a shu, and promoting decentralization in each regional block are indispensable prerequisites to restructuring Japan's economic landscape.
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