2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Comparative Study on Localities Influencing the Development of Regional Cities in Japan
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14380023
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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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 | TOHOKU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
HINO Masateru TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, PROFESSOR, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (30156608)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHIHARA Naoki TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LETTERS, PROFESSOR, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (40240345)
SATO Naoyoshi TOHOKU BUNKA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF MEDICAL TREATMENT WELFARE, PROFESSOR, 医療福祉学部, 教授 (00125569)
TAKAHASHI Hidehiro MIYAGI GAKUIN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL STUDIES, PROFESSOR, 学芸学部, 教授 (80206838)
MASUDA Satoru TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT, PROFESSOR, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (30231591)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | regional city / branch office / locality / globalization / Tohoku Region / urban tourism / 地域コミュニティ |
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| Research Abstract |
The four regional cities of Sapporo, Sendai, Hiroshima and Fukuoka have rapidly grown up since the 1950s in Japan, in spite of the concentration of national population into the three largest metropolitan areas. In addition, the hierarchical connections between regional cities and other prefectural capitals have been strengthened through the agglomeration of branch offices of nation-wide companies. This was a phenomenon to characterize the urbanization of the latter of the 20th century in Japan.
However, after the latter half of the 1980's, it began to be different of vigor among four regional cities. Additionally, the agglomeration of the branch offices that played the role of engine of the growth of regional cities had decreased in the latter half of the 1990's. One of the main reasons was a decrease in employees of branch offices of nation-wide enterprises headquartered in Tokyo. Furthermore, a large part of the above branch offices was ones of the wholesale industry, the construction
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industry, finance, insurance, and transportation and the communication industry. These industries were matured industries in Japan. From these, it can be interpreted that the emphasis of investment, was shifted from the country to foreign countries among large enterprises in the progress of an economic globalization. Therefore, it is not thought that the branch agglomeration expands again greatly even if business will recover in the future.
On the other hand, the regional cities have made efforts to attract visitors through expansion of tourism, entertainments and conventions. The development of high-speed transport links such as highways and airline routes enabled the visitor's increase. However, there is a large difference in the ability to invite more visitors among four regional cities. The ability to attract more visitors of Fukuoka is the largest among the four cities. As a background of that, Fukuoka has a relatively large volume of customers of Kyushu region, and a positional advantage in making linkages with other Asian countries. Less
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Research Products
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