Regional
Regional
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Insights & Analysis
Foreign Parties Acquired 175 Hectares of Japanese Farmland, 0.004% of the National Total — and Not One Hectare Went to a Foreign Corporation or a Foreign National Living Abroad
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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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About a Fifth of Choshi's Seafood Processors Have Failed or Effectively Closed — Imported Mackerel Cost 2.6 Times More per Kilo Than a Decade Ago, and Domestic Landings Fell 46.9%
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Vote-Weight Disparity Passes 2x in 16 Districts — Japan's Last Redistricting Started at 1.999
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The Linear-Shizuoka Agreement Now Carries a Clause to Halt the Work — How a Century-Old Memory of Water Loss Became Procedure
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46% of New Vets Go to Pets, 11% to Livestock — Japan Isn't Short of Vets, They're Maldistributed
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Bear Injuries Hit a Record 216 in Japan — Depopulation Has Emptied the Hands That Tended the Boundary
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Kumamoto's Car Society Cannot Be Solved by Roads — Transit's Downward Spiral and Planning Backward from Where People Live
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Repairs Keep Surfacing After You Buy a Kominka — The Information Gap Born of Inheritance and Aging
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Inherited Forest Land Without Clear Boundaries — Negative Assets and the Making of Owner-Unknown Land
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School Pools Are Disappearing — How Fiscal Gaps Between Municipalities Become Gaps in Learning to Swim
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Farm Machinery That Runs Only Days a Year — The Structure That Keeps Individual Ownership Locked In
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Furusato Tax Points Ban: A Six-Month Review of System Purpose and Return-Gift Competition
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The 'Can't Earn a Living' Problem in Japan's Rural Migration Push — A Career-Design Vacuum in Regional Revitalization Policy
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Kamakura Overtourism: Treating Tourist Destinations as Public Goods
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The Fragility of 'One Million Furusato Residents': Can Numerical Targets Qualify as EBPM?
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Where Did 1.3 Trillion Yen in Hometown Tax Go? — The Redistribution That Never Reaches 'the Regions'
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Four Furusato Tax Reforms: Who Is the Redistribution Engine Really For?
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Who Gets the ¥9.5 Trillion? — Questioning Japan's 'Tourism Nation' Without Residents
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Regional Revitalization 2.0 and the '10 Million Related Population' Target: Are Means and Ends Reversed?
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The Disappearing Workforce of Local Government — What Halved Exam Ratios and Surging Youth Resignations Reveal
Labs
Corporate Hometown Tax at ¥63.1 Billion — How Personnel Dispatch Is Reshaping Public Asset Regeneration
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Structural Analysis of Local Government 'Extinction' — 744 Municipalities Face the Critical Point of Population Decline and Fiscal Crisis
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Renewable Energy and the Regional Economy — New Inequalities Born of the Energy Transition
Debates
Does DX Promotion Narrow or Widen the Regional Gap?
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