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| Yoshitsune Village Honbetsu
Park (Honbetsu Town) |
The Hokkaido rural area is a place
to live and work as well as bearing the important role of food base for
Japan. However, with the progress of depopulation and aging, the revitalization
of rural areas has become an important issue. For this reason, the Ministry
of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is promoting a new country measure
for the formation of a Hokkaido-type new rural community.
This measure aims at creating a new country in the rural areas
by creating an area where people can use regional resources effectively
according to their own way of thinking, promoting agriculture-forestry and
fishery industry and related industries, fostering community revitalization
by interchange between rural areas and urban cities, and creating a place
where people would want to settle in and enjoy a high quality peaceful life
in a distinctive natural and cultural environment.
The special features of this measure are the following:
(1) The area itself organizes its own way of thinking and forms a design,
then the area develops subjective measures. (2) to realize the new country
plan, related organs need to positively support these measures by providing
combinations and coordination of various kinds of tools.
Naganuma Town, Higashimokoto Village, and others are already
developing enterprises based on designs decided by themselves. However,
the 6th period Hokkaido comprehensive development plan promotes and continues
the new country measure, so as for Naganuma Town and Higashimokoto Village,
the comprehensive development plan promotes the "new country plan"
vigorously in spreading widely the development method accumulated in the
model areas. |
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