The purpose of this study is twofold. The first is to review the necessity of arts related policy assessment and arts marketing under the movements of municipal mergers and circumstance of tightening budget in local governments in Japan. The second is to examine the possibilities and challenges for implementation of arts related policy assessment and arts marketing in local government. In order to do this, we use the data from questionnaire surveys conducted for the audience of “Arts Theaters for Hyogo Prefecture Residents” from year 2000 to 2003 and propose the applicability of Geographic Information Systems to arts related policy assessment and arts marketing.

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In 2003 we made a complete enumeration on the openness and platform function of public culture halls in Japan. According to this result this paper grasps the situation of the self-development programs, the plan capability, the use of information of external organizations and the cooperation with external organizations and typifies the public culture halls.

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Although the economical effect of historical sites is a core issue when considering them as a resource for tourism, the matter has hardly been verified in actual situation. This paper discusses the real economical effect of sites, drawing on results from questionnaires that have been collected during the summer of 2005, from two archaeological parks of the Jomon period in Japan: Sannai-Maruyama and Goshono. For two sites, the economical effect has been evaluated with consideration for the consumer behaviour of visitors.

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This essay has explored the possibility that initiatives for town development or new business creation in a city transform the city in terms of culture and institutions and for that purpose it has introduced the concept of culture capital to examine its relationship with and/or influence on the city's culture and institutions. As a result, it is shown that culture capital could induce the emergence of social activities, which form their social network and thereby produce a new localized culture within the network and that in the case that such activities become large enough and the social network become large and/or interrelated with other networks the new culture could lead to the transformation of the city's local culture and institutions as a whole.

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Taking part in design education, I'm practicing about stage creations and researching methodology of body expressions with my students. The stage creation combine all sorts of design and many fields of art, so it is just design work including many different things. The young who go through body expressions, are clearly improving not only body expressions, but also for mental reinforcement and whole fields of creation. This paper will consider about possibility and meaning of body expressions as for design education, from body educations and stage creations produce many good results and influences.

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Recently, new concepts like public diplomacy are recognized in the field of international cultural relations by the Japanese government, corresponding to the transformation of the international environment. This paper explores the interests and activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Japan since 2000. Firstly, the expanded stream is explained by tracing its post-World War Two activities. Secondly, activities by the Japanese diplomatic establishments in 16 countries are examined. This paper asserts quantitatively that the utilized cultural types are diverse and different depending on targeted countries.

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