[JPC] Special Committees: Urban Policy Committee

Improving the Productivity of Cities

Chairman:
Taichi Sakaiya, author, economic critic, and former State Minister

This committee examines how, based on the new concept of cities, the strategy to rectify the overconcentration in Tokyo can be crafted. It also promotes such necessity to improve the social productivity.

Major proposals and surveys/research presented thus far

Proposal for a “Dispersed Capital” Framework that Incurs no Burden (April 2003)
Changing Japan by Shifting the Capital from Tokyo (March 2002)
New Proposal for Shifting the Capital from Tokyo—Creating a Framework that Will Change Japan— (December 2000)
Urgent Appeal and Results of Questionnaire Survey on Opinion Leaders’ Views on the Feasibility of Shifting the Capital from Tokyo (December 2000)
Interim Report: New Proposal for Shifting the Capital from Tokyo—Toward Building a National Consensus— (September 2000)