Long-term Change in Political Interest over the Idea of “Well-balanced Land Development”

Abstract

For a long time, “well-balanced land development” was the core idea of the National Land Comprehensive Development Plan. It is essential to understand this plan in order to clarify the relationship between the idea and the plan.

This paper aims to verify the following two hypotheses about the change in political interest at the government level over this idea.

1）In political interest at the government level, it may be comparatively recently that this idea came to be recognized as “the core idea of the National Land Comprehensive Development Plan”. 2）This idea may have changed from “the core idea of the plan” to “the core idea beyond the plan”.

This paper arrived at the following conclusions. 1）It may be said that hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2 are proper together. 2）Hypothesis 1 was formulated in the latter half of the 1980s（the development period of the fourth National Land Comprehensive Development Plan）. On the other hand, hypothesis 2 was formulated in the latter half of the 1980s or the first half of the 1990s.