2025 Volume 34 Pages 90-99
As the working-age population continues to decline, to achieve regional revitalization, it is important to attract and develop industries that can acquire funds from outside the region and establish an economic structure that circulates the acquired funds within the region. In other words, manufacturing industries with a high added value acquisition capacity that can acquire funds from outside the region are needed, and service industries that increase the total amount of funds circulated through local production and consumption within the region are needed. Meanwhile, municipalities that find it difficult to do this on their own need to make efforts to implement wider-area collaborations and mergers, reduce administrative costs, and maintain employment income.
