Municipalities' Plans to Invite Newcomers in East Japan

A Trend Analysis by Using the Retrieval Results of Their Homepages

Abstract

This study gathers municipalities' plans to invite newcomers in East Japan by using the homepage retrieval. The results are as follows: 1) The ratio of the municipality with plans was different in each region; In East Japan, the tendency of the ratio was about 30-40%; 2) In the less-favored areas, the ratio was higher. On the other hand, the ratio was lower at surrounding the big city; 3) The main content was roughly categorized into seven kinds; 4) The ratio of the municipality that had various kinds of plans was higher in the less-favored areas.