To investigate the resilience of central shopping districts in a global pandemic, this study explored the possibility of resilience from the Corona disaster by comparing Shinsaibashisuji shopping district, the largest in western Japan, and Kuromon Market, which has shifted to a tourist destination type. The characteristics observed in both shopping streets, which have different main customers, were that the number of visitors to Shinsaibashi was less than half from 2019 to 2021, while the number of visitors to Kuromon Market was about one-thirtieth. In Kuromon Market, where foreign tourists were the main clientele, land prices fluctuated around the Corona Disaster at a higher rate than in Shinsaibashisuji. In terms of government and local government support, the “employment adjustment subsidy” was more effective than the “reduced business hours subsidy” in both shopping areas. As keys to resilience, the Shinsaibashisuji shopping district emphasized sales centering on department stores and information exchange among individual stores, while Kuromon Market reexamined its clientele, which had been mainly foreign tourists, and found it important to offer new services, including sales targeting Japanese tourists and food delivery for neighborhood residents. The market is now in the process of rethinking its foreign tourist clientele.

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This study investigated factors affecting healthy life expectancy among certified long-term care residents in urban areas of Nagata-ku, Kobe City and Hirakata City, Osaka Prefecture. Through interviews at nursing care facilities and in their homes, the study analyzed how community activities, exercise, roles, daily activities, and purpose in life/hobbies were related to healthy life expectancy. We classified those who were certified as needing nursing care 2 or more before healthy life expectancy as “accelerated caregivers” and others as “delayed caregivers,” and investigated the relationship with healthy life expectancy by physical disability factor and cognitive factor. The results showed that for physical disability factors, frequency of participation in community activities and conversation, family structure, roles（community association officer and employment）, and daily activities（community activities, walking, reading, etc.）were significantly related to healthy life expectancy. Among cognitive factors, exercise frequency was significantly related to healthy life expectancy. Multiple regression analysis indicated that participation in community activities, exercise frequency, frequency of going out, roles, and daily activities were significantly related to healthy life expectancy in the physical disability factor group, while only exercise frequency was significantly related in the cognitive factor group. There were differences between the physical disability and cognitive factors.

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