This essay is a study on characteristics and meaning of the social condition for the promotion and enjoyment of culture created by citizen activity in the local area. This article proposes that the base to form and animate citizen activities is connected with the construction of human relations at various levels and the characteristics of value- oriented activity in the group. In addition to these characteristics, this article proposes the possibility that citizen activities could be an independent social condition for the enjoyment and distribution of culture. It will be different from the public or commercial condition in local areas.

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The purpose of this study is to understand the use of practice and rehearsal rooms set up in public halls. For this study, I investigated the number of rooms and floor space in nationwide facilities. From among those, four public halls were chosen. I investigated the type of use, way of use and duration of use. As a result of this study, it was cleared that practice and rehearsal rooms were used not only for the practices and rehearsals but also for the performances and workshops.

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This essay insists on the importance of a point view of consumption for the argument of creativity of a city and has examined the relationship between a creative milieu and a consumer's creativity which is displayed mainly in expressions in an urban culture space. As a result, it is shown that urban culture spaces having ‘creative’ culture capital which orientates participating consumers' activities towards creative ones is one condition for such creativity to contribute to the formation of a creative milieu, and conversely that the meanings that a consumer's creativity produces contribute to the maintenance and renewal of such ‘creative’ culture capital.

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The purpose of this paper is to suggest a business model suitable for the era of the Internet. For this, we examine the possibilities of distributing free music protected by weaker copyright, which accords moral rights priority over property rights. As a result, we testify that weaker copyright has promotional effects because information is easily and widely distributed among people, and it is possible to make profits with supplementing goods such as live concert tickets.

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This article notes the important role of public choice approach [PCA] at Japanese heritage policy. It focus on the problem of expanding range of cultural property by law. We will begin by considering some heritage markets as comprehensive system of circulation. And heritage policy should be differentiated into social valuation approach [SVA] and PCA In Japan, The importance of SVA cannot be overemphasized but we must not forget that PCA expands range of cultural property by law.

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YAMAHA CORPORATION (An old name of the company: Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd.) that was born in Shizuoka Prefecture Hamamatsu City in 1887 has had a big influence on the formation of a regional culture. One is the “Culture of the making” formed in this region through manufacturing the piano with wide skirts of a mountain of the technology and industry. Another one was to have brought the region the prosperity of the music culture by YAMAHA that developed as cultural industry. The culture in the region is formed by the influence of the enterprise is clarified through the history of YAMAHA and the appearance as cultural industry.

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