Abstract
The purpose of this study is to characterize the Japanese prefectures by the public investment patterns.
At first, using the ratio of the public investment items, we try to classify the prefectures into some groups by the cluster analysis. These investment items used here are [1], Road, [2] Street, [3] Harbor Facilities, ....[14] Industrial Water Supply, [15] Others.
As the result of the analysis, the Japanese prefectures are classified into the following three groups.
[1] Advanced group-This group includes the most urbanized areas in Japan, for exmaple, TOKYO, OSAKA and these areas are invested especially on the following items, that is, Street, Housing, Urban Planning, Sewerage.
[2] Backward group-Non-urbanized areas, fore example, AOMORI, IWATE belong to this group and the public investment of this group is concentrated on Conservation of National Land, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.
[3] Intermediate group-This group has the areas characterized by the industrial development, for example, OKAYAMA, OITA and has the investment emphasized on the basic facilities of products, that is, Harbor Facilities, Industrial Water Supply.
