By using Input-Output tables, we studied the effect of geographical locations on economic impacts of cultural industries, as well as the change of economic impacts through time. We found that the cultural industries in Tokyo have greater economic impacts than the average of Japan. Moreover, a time series analysis revealed that changing patterns of multiplier effects from 1990 to 2000 vary for each of cultural industries. In particular, the economic impact of motion picture drastically increased during the period.

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Domestic music software industry is presently facing a period of transition. Through shrinking tendency of the market size, affronting difficulties such as the diversification of customers and the capitalization of delivery, the major record companies seem to be repeating the process of trial and error. However on the other hand, the indie labels (independent music software companies) are beginning to activate, as can be seen from the best practices of companies, which especially place reliance on localities. Writing here, will be considering those possibilities of how the domestic music industry are to be industrialized in domestic regions.

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The music digitally market in Japan grew at a steady pace until 1998 and took an abrupt downward turn. The artist sector in J-POP market is highly dynamic movement in the top sales year's chart between 1999-2003. And there are some artists with charisma in it. In contrast, major companies make oligopoly market and they cannot avoid to go down together.

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Examining historical changes in Korean opera, this study analyzes the circumstances of the opera today. The changes can be broadly divided into four stages based on the way of producing opera by Korean opera companies: the fetal stage, the growth stage, the expansion stage and the development stage. The study attempts to grasp the changes of production methods in each stage and presents an analysis of each characteristic. In regard to the current situation, which is the development stage, the study demonstrates the following three characteristics: 1) Collaborations that serve to strengthen the opera company network has become multiple, and the number of performances has also increased, 2) various strategies of customer service have been developed to gain new audience and increasing ticket sales can be expected, 3) segmentation of the opera community has been caused by different approaches to increase and maintain the number of operagoers

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Recently, privatization of the management of public cultural facilities has been increasing. Good communication between public cultural facilities and local communities is essential, but the research in Kyushu shows that in reality the relationship between them is not strong. The construction of networks among people and organizations, in which residents, non-profit organizations, corporations and local governments bring their possible merits is needed immediately.

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The purpose of this paper is to show the process of urban regeneration and its sustainability, based on cultural industry. When consumption-oriented cultural policy for a part of people like elite, is used for developing cultural industry or regional economic development, after all, there will not be sustainable growth in the aspect of society, economy, and even art/culture. If cultural policy premised on public policy theory is implemented, how can it promptly create or generate cultural industry which taken root in a community? If it made it, how would cultural policy function and, at the same time, the financial problem concerning to cultural policy/cultural investment be solved? Answering above these questions, this paper tries to propose the system/structure for urban sustainable development based on cultural industry.

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The economy of Utashinai city declined and its population decreased because of the closure of coal mines which used to be the main industry of the city. This paper studies and analyzes the effect of the economic decline on the events in the city.
At the crises of the city economy, events were revitalized or newly planned by the citizen with support of the city office. However, many events were discontinued at the abolition of subsidies from the city owing to its financial problem. For the continuation of the events, the originality of the events, the recognition by the citizen and the existence of the strong implementation body for the promotion of the events are necessary.

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Osaka Prefecture's cultural endeavors have a long and fruitful history going back to right after World War II, and one of them is the Osaka Prefecture Civic Theatre Project. This project was rooted in the concept led by Germany's Volksbühne (literally, the People's Theatre) in order to provide the people of the prefecture with opportunities to readily enjoy the arts. Moreover, in the 70s and 80s, the recommendations regarding the philosophy of cultural policies were made by two study groups established by the prefecture. These recommendations provide a valuable suggestion for the relationship between urban/economic revitalization and cultural development within the government's modern policies on culture.

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