Abstract
In the face of population decline, most of local governments are now suffering from tight problem of how to revitalize local communities and local economies. In the process of economic development since the end of World War II, population migration from rural area to urban area and concentration of population to Tokyo metropolitan area have created biased population distribution and emerging ubiquitous network society and potential power of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are expected to be the magic wand for solving problems associated with this distorted society. However we should ask if there are good grounds for believing that ICT can be the savior for regional and/or local revitalization. In this paper, we first define the concept of regional revitalization, consider the measures for regional revitalization from a socio-economic perspective and then finally examine if ICT can contribute to regional revitalization or not.
