出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：As regards measures for supporting regional job creation in Japan, the
central-government-led policies that were drawn up during the period of rapid
economic growth and that relied on public works spending continued until the
1980s. The recessionary measures in the 1990s, however, resulted in the
central and local governments to accumulate huge budget deficits, and it was
no longer possible to adopt the policy measure of promoting regional
development through public works spending. As a result, in the economic
recovery phase that began in 2003, the economic gap between large urban
areas where private firms are recovering and rural areas that depend on the
decreasing public spending is rapidly expanding. Faced with these widening
regional divergences, the government is making a policy change from the
central-government-led, institutionalized policy for regional recovery to a
decentralization policy where regional communities voluntarily draw up and
execute their policies for regional development.
