This article investigates the responses to potential future changes in climate from a holistic view of the destination and a social-ecological resilience perspective with the help of a case study in Niseko town and Kutchan town in Hokkaido. The results of thematic content analysis for the collected data show that the high dependency of the destination on natural resources for its attraction might increase the destination’s vulnerability to climate change, which might be offset by all-year-round tourism. The actions taken by residents, local governments, and enterprises to respond to climate change at the current stage remain mitigation actions. In the future, the local governments are thought to take more responsibility to promote the actions against climate change and do information-sharing while strengthening awareness about climate change through education is also expected for the residents and tourists.

Based on the results of a questionnaire research administered to business advisors at commercial and industrial associations who assist in drawing up business innovation plans, I cleared up the role played by business advisors in supporting small enterprises and the necessary enhancement of implementation circumstances for fulfilling their roles.

This paper presents an analysis of positive changes in local residents and governance through university-community collaboration. While previous studies have predominantly focused on analyzing student development through community engagement programs in higher education, little studies have explored the transformational impact on local community and governance. This paper examines the results of interview surveys on the Community-Based Learning processes at the Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, conducted to Kyotango City, Kyoto Prefecture, and Sumoto City, Hyogo Prefecture. The results of the survey were analyzed in development process of the educational program and the changes in the community. Common elements identified in both cities include: 1) positive impacts of the university’s knowledge on the localities, 2) positive impacts brought by students’ knowledge and opinions, and 3) increased support from local residents.

Parent-child Workation are promoted by local authorities targeting parents and children. The actual situation of how local authorities promote parent-child Workation from the perspective of project effectiveness has not been fully examined, as parent-child Workation are a new concept. This paper identifies the effects of parent-child Workation on participating families and communities, success factors and challenges, and derives policy implications for effective project implementation.

Although regional industrial policies have focused on attracting manufacturing industries, there are cases where sufficient employment creation has not been achieved due to the globalization of the manufacturing industry and the shift to services. In order for a region to survive amid a declining population, it must create high value-added basic industries and generate income from outside the region. The "Economic Infrastructure Model" is a method for quantitatively predicting the employment effects of regional development. In this paper, we use the "economic base model" to study the case of an automobile industry, which has a large base industry and is considered to have a large employment effect. The paper discusses the employment effects and challenges of attracting the automobile industry to Southern Region Development Area of Iwate Prefecture and Western Region of Ibaraki Prefecture where new factories for finished vehicles have been established.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the actual situation of the use of part-time staff for the implementation of health services in local governments, and to clarify the characteristics of the division of roles between full-time public health nurses and part-time staff in local governments, using the infant family door-to-door home visit project implemented by municipalities as a subject matter.

As a result, full-time staff members oversaw high-risk cases, while part-time staff members were in charge of other cases, collaborating to implement the project. The results also suggested the importance of having full-time staff perform risk classification of subjects based on assessments and of establishing a system for sharing case information during project implementation.