Abstract
The aim of this study is to clarify the cause of less linkage between national land planning and tourism policy in postwar Japan from the perspective of learning by the failures. Through the study on the large-scale development project for tourism and recreation, launched in the second Comprehensive National Development Plan, following are found out;The planning sector had no time to follow through with the logic construction for fusion between national land planning and tourism policy. the compartmentalized public administration impeded the realization of the large-scale development project combined with oil crisis of the 1970s.
