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| Duties of the National and Regional Planning Bureau |
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| The principal
roles of National and Regional Planning Bureau(NRPB) are to consider
the ideal figure of Japanese land use and to make a comprehensive plan
coordinating each fields such as urban, industrial and transportation
policies, that is, to draw future plan of Japan. |
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Building
a new national and regional planning system |
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The current
national plan, or “Grand Design for the 21st Century,” clearly states
the need to aim at establishing a new national and regional planning
system that answers calls for the clarification of the philosophy
behind national and regional plans.
For this reason, a subcommittee on basic policy was
established with the National Land Council in March 2001, and a report
was put together in November 2002 on the future outlook of the country
and ways to optimize the new national and regional planning system. On
the basis of the above report, a subcommittee to study reforms was
established with the National Land Council on June 2003, and a report
on the comprehensive review on Japan's national land policy was
finalized on May 2004.
After further consultation in the National Land Council, an
overall revision of the Comprehensive National Land Development Act
were made in July 2005, in which a shift from emphasis on development,
creation of a vision in cooperation between the national and local
governments, participation of a variety of bodies in planning process
and establishment of a simple and integrated national and regional
planning system were included. The new law, National Land
Sustainability Plan Act, came into force in December 2005. Based on the
new law, National Land Sustainability Plans, consisting of the national
plan and wide-area regional plans will be drafted. They shall be
drastically different from the past comprehensive national development
plans in terms of both planning processes and the contents.
Deliberations are currently made in the National Land Council in order
to draft the national plan of National Land Sustainability Plans.
・The New National Land Sustainability
Plan(PDF 477KB)
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Promotion
of plans that are consistent from both the nationwide and regional
standpoints |
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Following the
war, Japan's greatest task was to revive the country, which had been
almost burned to the ground. The Comprehensive National Land
Development Act was established in 1950. This law provided a foundation
for national and regional plans that portrayed a vision of the postwar
development of Japan's national territory.
The plan, "Grand Design for the 21st Century," is currently
under way. In addition to promoting comprehensive measures based on
nationwide programs, the National and Regional Planning Bureau is in
charge of National Land Use Plan, plans for metropolitan areas such as the capital
region, the Kinki region and the Chubu region and plans that encourage regional development in
regions ranging from Tohoku to Kyushu. |
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Relocating
the National Diet, etc. |
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Relocation of the
National Diet, etc. are important issues closely associated with reform
of the entire government and will also help greatly to correct
over-centralization in Tokyo and improve the country's ability to
withstand disasters. The report of the Council for Relocation of the
Diet and Other Organizations was presented in 1999. Deliberations on
the matter are now taking place in the Diet from a broader point of
view based on laws concerning the relocation of the Diet and other
organizations. MLIT is both cooperating pro-actively to facilitate the
smooth progress of deliberations in the Diet and engaged in a wide
range of publicity activities to inform the Japanese people.
· To go to the website on Relocation of the Diet and
Other Organizations |
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Anti-disaster
Measures |
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| The safety and
security of residents in the stricken area must be ensured by attempts
to prevent reoccurrence of disasters; disaster-related countermeasures
will be carried out energetically and immediately even in the fiscal
year when the disaster took place. |
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Creating
Scenery |
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| Seeking to
contribute to richer, more rewarding lives for the Japanese people, the
NRPB carries out work to create scenery through flexible budgetary
measures in response to needs during the fiscal year. These efforts are
aimed both at creating excellent scenery and undertaking initiatives to
help Japan become a powerhouse in tourism. |
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Putting
Social Capital in Place |
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| The NRPB works
to planned provision of social capital based on long-range planning
conducted by ministries. It also coordinates adjustments between the
wide-ranging projects that are under the jurisdiction of the various
ministries. |
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Urban
Renewal |
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| The NRPB
undertakes initiatives to enable flexible handling of budgetary
measures that become necessary during the fiscal year with respect to
carrying out urban renewal projects. |
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Urban
Renewal and Preparations for Scenic Facilities |
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| The NRPB carries
out preparations for urban renewal projects and facilities related to
projects to create excellent scenery. |
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Preparations
for and Mutual Use of Geographical Information Systems |
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| Geographical
Information Systems (GIS) are a technology for comprehensive management
and processing of location-related and spatial data (spatial data). As
such, GIS technology enables advanced analyses and fast assessments in
a visual manner. NRPB's National Land Information Office is vigorously
undertaking GIS-related initiatives in a partnership with related
government ministries / agencies and the private sector. |
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Preparation
and Provision of National Land-related Information |
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Starting April
2001, numerical land-related data has been provided gratis (download
services) via the Internet. This data is made available for use in
various areas as it covers a wide range of land-related information,
including topography, land use, public facilities, roads, and
railroads. As such, it is data that is the foundation for the
formulation of national and regional plans such as the National Land
Sustainability Plans and National Land Use Plans. This numerical
land-related data facilitates analyses involving cross-matching of
population statistics with other statistics because much of it is
meshed with other data.
The National Land Information Web Mapping System, which was
opened to the public starting March 2003, allows numerical land
information to be read in a browser and downloaded. Besides providing
numerical land information, the system allows access to aerial
photographs that were photographed from 1974 to 1990 (currently about
100,000 photos).
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Studies
of the Emergence of National Land-related Measures |
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| Studies of the
emergence of national land-related measures have the objective of
promoting policies related to land use, development and preservation
through the application of partnerships between the national and
regional governments and bottom-up techniques. The necessary studies
are carried out with the participation of the various related
organizations in order to implement measures related to creating a
national territory with an emphasis on local autonomy, proposals from
regions, and partnerships between the national and local governments. |
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Mutsu-Ogawara
Development Project |
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The Conference
for Promoting Mutsu-Ogawara Development Project(Group 6)and the
Governmental Meeting for Mutsu-Ogawara Development Project are involved
in the Pproject.
Group 6(MLIT, Aomori Prefecture, Rokkasho Village,
theDevelopment Bank of Japan, the Japan Business Federation and New
Mutsu-Ogawara Inc. works to promote the project generally.
Governmental Meeting,which is composed of ministries, is
the organization for the coordination in the Government.
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International
Cooperation Regarding National And Regional Planning |
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The NRPB actively
conducts exchanges of opinion with other countries. These exchanges
will be reflected the national land policy of Japan.
More specifically, the NRPB constructively collects
information on the national land policies of other countries through
participation in international organizations such as OECD/TDPC (Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development / Territorial Development Policy Committee) and UN-HABITAT
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme) as well as through
bilateral exchange with Korea and multi-lateral exchange with
developing countries in an effort to mutually improve planning
capabilities for national land policy. |
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