Course Description

To deepen the understandings of Japanese regional economy, we study the basic theory of Regional Economics and Urban Economics. Then we investigate regional economic trends of Japan i.e. the movement of people and economy to concentrate to Tokyo Metropolitan Area, the efforts ofJapanese Government to decentralize ecomic power and revitalization of regional economy, and the fiscal diffculty of local governments. So, in the course of Japanese Regional Economy II, we investigate the location problems of industrial activities, the accumulation and external effects of industry, the theory of center place, the Japanese city system, the location problems of housing and the land price, the policy of land, housing and urban transportation, the financial problem of local government and the efforts ofJapanese government for decentralization and revialization of the regional economy.