The Impact of Building National Resilience on Regional Development

Abstract

Building national resilience is a spatial planning policy adopted by the second Abe administration. The policy aims at creating safe and secure national lands, regions, and economic society that have strength and flexibility. This paper focuses on the impact that building national resilience has on regional development. In terms of regional policy in Japan, many efforts toward regional revitalization and development promote public-private initiatives. Both resilience and revitalization are necessary for enhancing regional power. This paper, firstly, outlines the basic concept and procedures for promoting initiatives for building national resilience and, secondly, describes the basic framework for strengthening linkage with regional development. Lastly, this paper discusses the linkage between building national resilience and developing local areas.