The demand of open data promotion is growing rapidly from early 2012. In this paper, we aim to revitalize the region by promoting open data making full use of knowledge in the making things field. Through the 3 studies, we confirmed the effectiveness of our proposed methods.

"Local conglomerates" which have developed business in a multifaceted and diversified way are key players in promoting the use of "public-private data" in each region. I analyzed their circumstances of business diversification and considered their potentials based on arrangement and discussion of the scope of activities, the details of the business. As a result, it was clarified that the local conglomerates are divided into "daimyo" and "barons" by the width of their activity range, and it was possible to classify it into the type of energy business, transportation business, and the real estate system, and so on.

The aim of this paper is to examine quantitatively clarified the influence of the proximity of local governments on the approach to open data by The Point distribution analysis of Open data initiative local government in Japan.As a result, From the kernel density estimation analysis, it is shown that in the most concentrated hot spots is 25 km radius from the center in the Kansai area. Next hot spots is in the range of 30 km radius from the center in the Kanto area,the middle region, the Fukui prefecture, and the Tokai region were able to extract hotspots concentrated on medium scale.

National Identification Number System will be the first system in Japan to improve efficiency of administration and residents, connecting all central and local governments, etc.

In order to be settled as the national base system, risk management and preventing for accidents, reducing resident's anxiety are needs by governments.

In this paper, I analyzed risk measures in Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) through the security incidents, and examine problems for the Open Government.

This research reconfirms the history of domestic industrial location policy and analyzes industrial development policy Ruby City MATSUE project using programming language Ruby from the viewpoint of "discussion on new industrial clusters". Furthermore, research on the movement of the latest country and exploring the road signs of industrial concentration by regional policy.

Since the nursing-care insurance system started in 2000, interest in regional welfare's informationization has expanded. Especially, the information nursing care workers must deal is very large, so how to make effective use among multiple occupations using Information technology is considered to be a big problem. In addition, it is necessary to consider effective medical and nursing-care cooperation efforts so that comprehensive and continuous service can be offered not only to users who have entered nursing care facilities but also to users who seek overall welfare I think there is.

Regional Baby-rearing Network draws attention to Baby care support. In this study, we inspected the current Baby-rearing situation of Regional Baby-rearing Network. Based on the results of the survey, we take on improvement information and secondary use of information for provide further complete regional Baby-rearing information. We conduct an experimental study in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya city for evaluation of the performance.

This paper aims to investigate significance and problem of linkage with community media and local residents. Recently, by development of the information technology, a role of community media are diversifying. In this research, by interview with community media, a change of the consciousness of the media side for the inhabitants participation became clear.

In the context of experimental and computational social sciences, the online experiment is one of the critical methods. We conducted public goods game (PGG) experiment using the oTree software for over 800 participants. We report the technique of the operation, results from the contribution and the reaction time in PGG, and discuss remaining issues for further studies.

This paper aims to illustrate and show viewpoints for strength of correlation relationships between personal exchanges and economic activities, focusing on person in specialty occupation and international transactions between Japan and 30th countries for 11 years. Moreover, results of this empirical analysis suggest that personal exchanges are positively correlated with trading in goods and services in international economic activities.

In this study, results predictions on Japan's national elections are made by analyzing data obtained through social listening which is typically used for problem solving. The study finds that results predictions using social media are effective in a proportional representation system.

This paper introduce previous research from a social scientific point of view. There are mainly two types of approaches: social network theory and institutional theory. This paper also shows other approaches, for example, how and how much does the value of art works increase or fall. Nowadays, information processing technology is more developing than the days when the previous researces was written. This paper suggests that it will give various additional approaches.

The results of a mid-sized survey in the Tokyo area (n=1644) indicated that most media gratifications do not contribute to successful aging among the Japanese young old (58∼70 years). Scores from the Morale Scale are positively correlated with age and negatively correlated with media gratifications, especially television viewing gratifications. This research raises questions about prevailing notions that the retired elderly lose motivation in their life and the media complement their commitment to society and their social activities.

Digital divide is the gap between those who can use ICT and those who can’t use it. It has a profond inpact on the social life and economic activities. In this reserch I analyze the structure and cause of the digital divide in order to clarify the essence of the problem.

This paper aims at re-developing the “Information Ecosystem” model proposed in the author’s doctoral thesis. From the author’s eight-year fieldwork, the question of “what is information at the field” has been repeatedly recalled. This fundamental question is regarded as the goal of fieldwork in Informatics. And this paper tries to reexamine the methodology for fieldwork in Informatics, with reference to “Cybernetics” by Wiener, “Autopoiesis” by Maturana & Varela, “Social System” by Luhmann and “Hierarchical Autonomous Communication System” by Nishigaki.

My current research theme is reconsidering accumulated knowledge in Jses founded in 1953. As part of this, I wrote research materials for the socio-statistical concepts in the latter half of the 20th century, keeping the view of Dr.Taro KIMURA was one of Jses originators in mind, from 2013 to 2018. The purpose of this paper is to explain the essentials in above-mentioned materials, and review the socio-statistical and information concepts that have been invented in Jses. This interim report is also a starting point for full-fledged research to find a way to regenerate those concepts in the 21st century.

In this research, we investigated Twitter’s problem posting related to "prostitution" and a series of hashtags used for it. Our conclusion is as follows: (1) Twitter’s problem posting is constantly occurring, and it is in a situation in which young people are actually touched. (2) There is concern that it will respond to posts that are hard to notice by learning from hashtags relationship. (3) It is difficult to grasp from outside when communication through DM is done.

Existing research on internet usage and social relationships of junior and senior high school students have mostly approached their informants offline. This research is based on an online ethnography to uncover how students establish social relationships in the online world. Selecting Twitter as one of the most widely used social media among this age group, we conducted fieldwork among students who identify themselves as members of the school brass band. As a result, we found that brass band members are “looking for friends” on Twitter and connecting with strangers, and making claims for improved acknowledgment and respect towards brass band members in real life. Connecting with strangers online entails various risks. However, for students who feel that belonging to the brass band places them among the less popular groups of students in school, the online community provides them with an invaluable experience of encountering different ideas and values outside the confinement of the school setting in real life.

This paper shows a new way to manage of routing information of local govermments without using geographic information system. OpenStreetMap is tool that anyone can use and create geographic information. I proposal to use the tool to management of routing information of local goverments in Japan.

This paper reviews utility of government data used by utilizing smart speakers. Smart speaker's App Development used by government data for the data change into Open Data. We reveal merits of Open Data through Consideration smart speaker's App. So,the purpose of this study is promotion of Open Data and first step of “Super Smart Society”.

Cyber attack is one of the most serious threats facing many organizations in the Internet era. Technical controls attract attention, but security management is an item that really matter. The fundamental basic of the item is information security policy; documentation of security baseline for administrative control. This paper presents the result of our survey on information security policies of Japanese local governments. As it is promoted for government services for residents and companies, their high level of security is essential and increasingly important. We conducted a survey of the whole 1,741 basic local governments; cities, wards, towns, and villages. Our analysis showed that 64% of them formulated their own security policies. Only about 19% of them are up-to-date with the guideline provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. We also found that the formulation and revision of security policies are directly tied to the scale of the government, i.e. proportional to revenue and population.

In recent years, in companies in Japan, companies that use offshore development in information system development are increasing. Offshore development is to entrust system development work to overseas system development companies and overseas subsidiaries. The introduction of offshore development can enjoy the merit of cost reduction and resource securing. However, in offshore development, several tasks also exist. On the other hand, near-shore development has attracted attention as a solution to the problem of offshore development. Nearshore development is to utilize domestic local cities and entrust system development work to domestic system development companies. The merit of nearshore development is that it can maintain and secure high quality and security. In this research, we take a case of a foreign-affiliated system company in Okinawa and consider the actual situation and problems of nearshore development.

Information technology (IT) has become a great influence on society and the economy, and the importance of IT utilization in corporate management is increasing. However, although the results of efforts to utilize IT to improve the efficiency of business and cost reduction in the informationization of Japanese companies are successful, the IT management efforts to utilize IT for corporate management, such as product service and strategy for new business, are behind the United States It is pointed out. Also, there are mismatches in human resource education at Japanese companies and universities. Based on these points, this paper clarifies the issues of human resources who practice IT management in companies and considers the ideal way of information education in universities.

Before 1975, the networks of Japanese terrestrial television were diverse. Among them, the network with Nippon Educational Television and Mainichi Broadcasting System TV showed a variety of development. In the late 1960s, Nippon Educational Television suddenly organized a large number of quiz shows and began to be called "Quiz station". This study historically analyzed the phenomenon "Quiz station, and clarified the influence that broadcast regulations influenced the other station through the network.

This study viewed transient relationships on the Internet that were seen in processes of online datings. I interviewed 18 girls to clarify online datings of adolescent girls. As a result, 12 girls had realized online datings. Although they had realized online datings on their own, they did not relate to persons that they got to know on the Internet. This study defined transient relationships as new relationships that disappeared in a short term, although girls knew each others by online datings to establish heavy and continuous relationships.

This paper aims to clarify the characteristics of self-regulations in Japanese TV animation. To exemplify that, this paper focuses on various depictions of underage drinking in Anime and analyzes those reasons and excuses for depicting such scenes.

Internet Addiction is supposed to be one of the common social problems. This paper inquires how schoolchildren use the Internet on a survey we executed in Maebashi City during these theree years (2015 - 2017) including longitudinal panel survey. The result tells us 4.5-7.9 % of elementary school children and 6.2-7.6% of juior-high school students belong to the high risk group. We investigates also the influence of the parental control to Internet addicton among pupils through asking the domestic rules.

The questionnaire survey on the media environment and information behavior was conducted for about 700 students at 4 primary and secondary schools in Chiang Mai prefecture, Thailand on March 2017. This research is positioned as a preliminary survey to build an educational system for rabies prevention to be conducted in Asia. Rabies is a fatal disease and presents especially in poor and vulnerable locations in the Asia and Africa. Globally, children between the ages of 5-14 years are frequent victims for rabies. This survey was conducted in such environment. Education on dog behavior and bite prevention for children is an essential factor to prevent rabies infection. In order to develop this education, it was necessary to investigate students’ media environment and information behavior before hand. In this survey, the effective responses (N=772) were aged 6 to 19. The popular media devices were smart phone (57.4%), TV (32.4%), and PC (8.3%) in order. The mode of daily media usage was from 1 hour to 3 hours (62.7%). The result of Chi- Square test showed students living in rural area tend to use mass media, on the other hand, students in urban area tend to use Internet media: Males tend to prefer collective communication, on the other hand, females tend to prefer personal communication. In conclusion, it can be said that Internet media is very popular in all over the age of students surveyed regardless of school region, age, gender, and mother tongue.

Existing studies on crowdfunding(CF) are mostly based on data disclosed by the operating companies on their websites. The author conducted a large online survey on CF users to investigate individual information in May 2018. Outline of Japanese uses and gratifications of CF, mainly those of supporters were examined in this report. Relationship between project goals and supporters' opinion and communication behaviors are also discussed.

This paper analyzed the relationship between R&D activities and firm value by using patent data provided by USPTO. We analyzed 7 Japanese firms listed on Forbes Global 2000 indexed as “Consumer Electronics.” Many former researches, by simply using these variables as stock/flow of the intangible assets, failed to explicitly explain the process in which R&D and patents effect the firm value. In focusing on the effect of R&D stocks on net profits, we overcame this limitation by using patent variables ratios which represent different aspects of R&D activities. Our panel data analysis shows that the increase of each variables significantly explains the increase of Tobin's Q. This does not only reaffirm the importance of patent related activities on firm value, but also indicate that these variables can be the useful proxies for assessing firm's innovation capability.

Tourism is viewed as one of the most promising industry to revitalize economies and create employment opportunities in Japan. Meanwhile, Chinese tourism market is rapidly growing. Mainland China has become the largest inbound tourists source country of Japan in 2015. Under this back ground, effective policies are important to attract more Chinese tourists. This study aims to verify factors that influence travel destinations selection when Chinese tourists visit Japan by regression analysis. Upon verification, the number of annual Chinese tourists in 47 prefectures in Japan is used as the dependent variable. Based on previous studies, we take five independent variables, which are the level of commercial prosperity, the level of cultural charm, the level of popularity in China, the level of human exchange between the region and China, and the level of transportation convenience. This study reconfirms factors influencing the selection of tourist destinations of Chinese tourists and whether there is a change with time transition. The result of this study can be used as an evidence for making tourism promotion policies.

This paper considers the relationship between the change in consumer’s attitude toward tourism resources and their information processing style. We conducted a questionnaire survey on the attractiveness of the tourism resources in Shodoshima Island, and tried an empirical analysis using the data.

Open data initiatives are spreading around the world. In order to more promote open data initiatives, it is important to share and analyze various cases and knowledge. A lot of event (workshops, contests, lecture, etc.) related to open data are being held, but the information is scattered and it is difficult to analyze collectively what kinds of event are being held. In this research, we propose a platform for sharing event information using open data. For that purpose, we analyzed the implementation status of IODD 2018, discussed the format for sharing event information and its classification method. We aim to accelerate the promotion of open data initiatives.

This paper aims to investigate the OpenData initiatives of municipal governments in Japan. The authors conducted a questionnaire survey to understand how municipal governments work on OpenData. In this paper, our survey were carried out from three points of views: a genre of data are released, criteria for requesting data provision, and cooperation from other departments.

This research focuses on the start of open data policy in Japanese municipalities and the assumption of the basis of policy at policy start. Because of its definition, open data is supposed to be used in some form after publication. Therefore, when municipalities undertake open data, whether the assumption of users was taken as the basis for policy start. This research question is clarified through an interview survey conducted on several municipalities.