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Institute for Social Vision Design

Local Government

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Insights & Analysis

Japan Lost 215 Primary Schools in a Year, and the Average School Still Got Smaller — From 315.7 Pupils to 312.4

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Japan's Scheme for Handing Inherited Land to the State Transferred 3,008 Plots in Three Years and Three Months — More Were Withdrawn (1,102) Than Refused (181)

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Japan's 70.3% Settlement Rate for Rural Revitalisation Volunteers Is Not the Share Who Stayed Where They Were Hired — That Figure Is 57.5%

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Vacancies Among Japan's Community Welfare Commissioners Reach 20,091 — The Quota Rose by 424 While 4,476 Fewer People Took the Role

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Japan's Volunteer Fire Corps Gained 37,757 and Lost 52,215 — Adding Up Every Gain in the Three Priority Categories Covers 27% of the Decline

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89.1% of Japan's 661,000 Local Government Fiscal-Year Appointees Work Part-Time and 75.8% Are Women — Outside the 19-Hour-25-Minute Line Sit Another 452,697

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Weekend School Clubs Move to the Community by FY2031, While Weekdays Carry Neither Target Nor Deadline — What the Shift From Transfer to Delivery Left Behind

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424 of the 449 Disaster-Related Deaths in Noto Were Aged 70 or Over — Individual Evacuation Plans Cover 15.1% of the Registers, and 40°C Has Now Settled Over Kumamoto's Shelters

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Contract Design Comparison of Three Small Concession Cases in Small Cities — Breakthrough Patterns for the Three Walls

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Seven Years of Assembly Seat Reduction Debates — The Time Structure of 'Candidate Shortage' and Seat Apportionment Ordinance Revisions in Japanese Local Assemblies

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Seven Years of 'Decarbonization' Discourse — Discontinuous Diffusion of Climate Language in Japanese Local Assemblies (2018–2024)

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Seven Years of 'Fiscal Consolidation' Discourse — The Temporal Structure of Fiscal-Crisis Language in Japanese Local Assemblies (2018–2024)

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Seven Years of LGBTQ and Partnership Ordinance Debate — Regional Diffusion of Sexual Minority Discourse in Japanese Local Assemblies

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Seven Years of Young-Carer Mentions in Japanese Local Assemblies — The Time Structure of 'Children Who Care for Family Members' in Assembly Discourse

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The PPP Desk Divide — Structural Gaps in Municipal Internal Capacity and Their Impact on Project Formation

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Risk Allocation in PPP/PFI Projects — How Poor Matrix Design Drives Project Failure

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Regional Distribution of 'Vacant Houses' and 'Public Facilities' Debate in Japanese Local Assemblies — A Seven-Year Structural Analysis Across 1,320 Municipalities

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Regional Distribution of 'Foreign Workforce' Debate in Japanese Local Assemblies — A Seven-Year Structural Analysis Across 870 Municipalities

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Seven Years of 'Care' Mentions in Japanese Local Assemblies — The Time Structure of Long-Term Care Insurance Act Revisions and Policy Lag

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Literature Map: A Lineage of Local Assembly Speech Data Research — Centered on the Work of Haruka Watanabe, Yasutomo Kimura, and Kenjiro Higashi

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National Distribution of Deferral Phrasing in Assembly Responses — A Structural Analysis of 18.97 Million Records from 870 Municipalities

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Machikarte Research Lab — Hypotheses and Overview: Reading Assembly Speeches as Observations