2008 Volume 31 Issue 4 Pages 55-63
In 2005, the Comprehensive National Land Development Act was revised completely and became the National Land Sustainability Plan Act. This is a major switch in the national and regional planning history of Japan. This study examines this big switch from the viewpoint of the critiques of the act.
In this study, the critiques of the National Land Development Plan were compiled from the remarks of the Diet, political parties, newspapers, magazines, and the financial world. These were then analyzed and the following four points were clarified:
1. The main critiques that appeared after the 5th National Land Development Plan,
2. The people who argued against the plan and those who counter argued,
3. The background and the causes for the critiques,
4. The response of the planning authorities to the critiques.
