The Change in the Development Plannings of Sendai-Shiogama Region.

Abstract

The working development plannings of Sendai-Shiogama region are : Specified Areas Development Program and New Industrial Centers Program. The former chiefly aims at the arrangement of the conditions for industrial location. The main objective of the latter is to arrange the conditions for the building of a seaside manufacturing region as the greatest economical base of the Tohoku District. The materialization of these plannings is to be done along the line of national development plannings.
One of the aims of Sendai-Shiogama development plannings is to build a new big manufacturing region, in which both the city of Sendai and the seaport of Shiogama are incorporated. On the other hand, according to the New Industrial Centers Program, a new port, the Sendai Harbor will be constructed. Thus the importance of this area will be emphasized as a manufacturing area, and as a base for whole Tohoku District. It is rooted in the geographical potential of the region which will be called to life in the light of modern development planning.