Economic Challenges Facing Japan's Regional Areas

1. Agricultural Policy: Supporting the New Developments in Japan's Agriculture.- 2. A New Direction for Agriculture in Japan.- 3. Japan's Agricultural Policy: Escaping the Ancien Régime.- 4. Fishing Policy: Toward Introduction of Science-based Measurement/Management of Resources.- 5. Introduction of an Individual Quota (IQ) System to Japan's Fishing Industry: An Economic Analysis.- 6. Revitalization of Japan's Fishing Industry: A Legal Perspective-The Cases of Rishiri and Rebun Islands.- 7. Tourism Strategy towards 2020: Promotion of Tourism and the Revitalization of Regional Areas.- 8. Creation of DMOs to Promote Inbound Tourism: Methods and Issues.- 9. Towards the Relaxation of Regulations on Minpaku in Japan.- 10. Local Government Financing of Health Insurance and the Revitalization-Facilitating Migration of the Elderly.- 11. Designing New Systems Through Risk Adjustment.- 12. Health Care, Long-term Care, and Local Public Finances: Intergovernmental Financing of Social Insurance Programs.- 13. Provision of National Health Insurance "Model Benefits" to Japan's Prefectures.- 14. Measures to Address Japan's Low Birth Rate.- 15. Marriage and Childcare in the Metropolitan Areas: A Comparison of Sapporo City and the Greater Fukuoka Area.- 16. Childcare and Measures Targeting Japan's Low Birth Rate: What Effect Can the Decentralization of Authority Have on the Birth Rate?.- 17. Good and Bad Fiscal Decentralization.- 18. Examining Functions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer.- 19. Decentralization Reform and Property Tax in Japan: A Consideration of the Benefit Principle.

Dr. Tatsuo Hatta is president of the Asia Growth Research Institute and director of Keizai Doyukai's Policy Study and Analysis Center since April 2013. Dr. Hatta was president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and professor at the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, and Johns Hopkins University.