2010 年 33 巻 4 号 p. 43-49
Is the recent interest among Diet members concerning the National Land Development Plan converging on transportation facility construction? This is the critical query of this study.
In this study, the relevance of the National Land Development Plan and transportation facilities was analyzed through the content of Diet minutes. The results are as follows: a) It may be said that the relevance of a National Land Development Plan and transportation facilities has risen in remarks made in the Diet after 2000, b) Similar such phenomena occurred twice in recent history-once in the first half of the 1970's and once in the latter half of the 1980's. There are two main differences between these two instances and remarks made since 2000. Firstly, the two instances in the past occurred when interest in the National Land Development Plan was high; the current phenomenon, on the other hand, has occurred when such interest is low. Secondly, the two instances in the past inferred that transportation depended on the National Land Development Plan; adversely, the current National Land Development Plan has come to depend on transportation facility construction.
The answer to the opening question is “yes” and leads us to determine that the comprehensiveness of the National Land Development Plan has decreased.