A STUDY REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION METHODS TO THE RELOCATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FUCTIONS IN JAPAN

Abstract

The Council for Relocation of the Diet and Other Organizations, an advisory body to the Prime Minister, utilized, for the relocation of central government functions. This paper describes the decision-making methods and the administrative processes involved. It also describes the various calculation methods used to generate overall scores and the properties used in the weighting. Through these descriptions, it examines the techniques potential and the problems with respect to fair, transparent site selection for national projects by neutral panel of experts.