抄録
Recently in Japan, about 450 schools have been closed annually. The closed schools should be utilized as the social capital. The necessity of the social business (hereinafter, referred to as “SB”) has increased recently. Based on the research of this paper, in order to make SB plan utilizing closed schools successful, local governments should give the economic support to the SB business operators and also make efforts to promote the closed schools utilization actively. The SB business operators and local governments should cooperate together to promote the closed schools utilization proactively.