"Capital Function City Experience CD-ROM" Completed
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The "Capital Function City Experiencce CD-ROM,"
which is designed to enable everybody to have a virtual
experience of the new city (i.e. the relocation site of
the capital functions) was completed.
The CD-ROM enables everybody to experience virtually the
environments, lives and others in the new city (the relocation
site of the capital functions) by exploring a virtual
urban space constructed using three-dimensional computer
graphics. Game elements were added to enable people to
enjoy deepening their understanding of the capital function
relocation. |
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Plaza on the "Capital Function City Experiencie
CD-ROM"` |
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Processes for Developing the CD]ROM |
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The CD]ROM was developed by listening to
the opinions of experts in urban planning and information,
including the establishment of the "Panel of Experiencing
System" chaired by Professor Emeritus Takamochi Ishii
of the University of Tokyo.
Inquiries were made via the Internet, and information
was provided through home pages to reflect the wide range
of opinions of many people in the CD-ROM development. |
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Details of the Capital Function City Experience CD-ROM |
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Constitution of the Capital Function City Experience
CD-ROM |
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The following three menus are the
main components of the CD-ROM: |
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"Municipal Virtual Experience Mode"
where urban environments and activities
can be experienced in a game-like atmosphere
in representative areas (the Diet building,
government offices' district, commercial
and business district, housing area and
others) created using computer graphics |
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"Municipal Automatic Strolling
Mode" for introducing representative
districts |
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"Data Bank" for introducing
advanced examples of city construction
using images and simple explanations |
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(In addition, the CD-ROM contained fundamental
explanations about the capital function relocation
and a function that enables people to send in
opinions or proposals to the National Land Agency
via the Internet.) |
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Shown above right is a scene from
the opening movie of the municipal virtual experience
mode. The leading character, Takuma, appears aboard
a high-speed traffic system. Takuma is a music
producer and is now in charge of producing music
for the tenth anniversary events of the new city.
Takuma tours in the new city according to various
hints.
Several logotypes are hidden in the new city.
If you collect all logotypes, you can see a wonderful
closing scene. Well, let's experience the main
scenes of the capital function city in this municipal
virtual experience mode. too. |
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| Areas
Surrounding the New Diet Building |
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| The domed building you
can see in front of you is the new Diet
building. The Diet building constructed
in the new city is designed to enable
people to fully enjoy friendliness and
a sense of relief to make the new city
suitable for the symbol of politics and
administration open to the nation. Scenes
of the Diet deliberations are depicted
on the large monitoring screen on the
wall. |
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| Governmental
Offices' District |
| The district abounds
in foliage and buildings are laid
out with enough space between
them. A barrier-free environment
is thoroughly pursued, and everybody
can play an active part comfortably.
In the governmental office building,
you could see the citizens referring
to national information and the
central ministry and agency officials,
the self]governing body officials,
persons related to nonprofit organization
(NPO), and others discussing policies. |
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| Embassy
District |
| I met an official
on the embassy staff in the embassy
district who said, "We were
able to have a more spacious embassy
by relocating here because rents
are much less inexpensive in the
new city than in Tokyo."
Convenient access to an international
airport from the new city is available. |
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| Let's take a look in the
assembly room. The public gallery is full
of people, and you can see the past deliberation
processes and other information on the
front monitoring screen or your handy
system terminals. |
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| Transit
Mall |
| A Light Rail Transit
(LRT) runs across the transit
mall where commercial facilities
stand side by side. The upper
stories of the mall accommodates
housing facilities and could also
be used as small offices and home
offices (SOHO). |
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| Eco-Friendly
Housing Area |
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housing area has extensive grounds
and is encircled by abundant foliage.
In the center space of the area,
there are lawn parks or citizen's
vegetable gardens available to
every citizen. On the carefully
tended country hills, you can
see children learning various
facets of nature from environmental
education leaders. |
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| Let's
Experience the Capital Function City! |
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The National Land Agency is planning
to encourage wide use of the CD-ROMs by
the general public by adding them to magazines
and other publications and selling them
from the Printing Bureau of the Ministry
of Finance as well as distributing them
to local public bodies, schools and other
organizations. |
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Windows |
Macintosh |
| OS |
Windows95/98 |
Higher than MacOS |
| CPU |
Higher than Pentium
200MHz or Equivalent |
Higher than PowerPC |
| RAM |
32MB
or More |
| Vacant
Capacity |
50MB
or More |
| CD-ROM
Drive |
Faster
than Quadruple Speed |
| Necessary
Software |
Superior
to QuickTime4.0
Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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| TOPIC |
Capital Function Relocation Q&A Section
Rewritten and Expanded |
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The existing Q&A section
on the National Land Agency Capital Function
Relocation Homepage was rewritten and
expanded to provide easily understandable
answers to as many people's inquiries
and questions as possible, such as (1)
"What is capital functions relocation?"
(2) "Why the capital functions relocation
is necessary?" (3) "What are
the candidate relocation sites?"
(4)How is the capital functions relocation
promoted?" and (5) "What are
the study procedures?" We would heartily
recommend you to utilize the rewritten
Q&A section.GO |
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Information Also Distributed in English |
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Information contained in this newsletter
and the report by the Council for the
Relocation of the Diet and Other Organizations
(summary) have been prepared in English.
However, we will promote distribution
in English and cover the full text of
the Council report, abstracts from reference
data, and the rewritten Q&A
described above. We cordially invite you
to utilize the distributed English materials. |
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Accessing Various Information |
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Various information concerning the capital functions
relocation has been being provided on the National Land
Agency Homepage on the Internet.
Also if you are interested in items described in this
leaflet and others, please let us know. We will pleasingly
send related documents to you. We are awaiting your contact. |
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| We are Waiting
for Your Contact |
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Address: Capital Functions Relocation Planning Division,
Metropolitan Areas Development Bureau, National Land Agency
2-2 Kasumigaseki 1-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-9972 JAPAN
Homepage: http://www.mlit.go.jp/kokudokeikaku/iten/index.html
E-mail:hqt-itenka(a)gxb.mlit.go.jp （Please replace (a) with @）
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