Walkable City Asahi Project

Aiming to change the behavior of citizens to prevent the onset of diabetes

Abstract

Asahi City, located at north-east area in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, cooperating with Novo Nordisc pharma Ltd. and Chiba University, as a public-private-academic collaboration, have directed the Cities Changing Diabetes Project to reduce patients suffering from Diabetes Mellitus since 2021. In the project, we, the walkable city promoting team, established 4 walking routes in the city in order to modify behaviors of citizens, because they have no walking custom in the lifestyle. We would like to describe how we have been promoting the current project.