Are the government’s regional revitalization measures really effective?
“Incite the impossible, as if everyone can do it if they work hard.”
Just 80 years ago, during the Pacific War, people put up with meager food rations with slogans such as “I won’t want it until I win.” In the history of this country, they were made to practice bamboo spears.
If you take a step back and judge calmly, you can’t fight machine guns with bamboo spears, and if you have nothing to eat and starve, you can’t even fight. Even if many thought so, it was not the air that might be said.
But guess what?
Even in the present age of Reiwa, there are neighborhoods where people “continue to say what they can’t do as if they can do it.” This includes countermeasures once morest the declining birthrate and regional revitalization. I wrote that measures to counter the declining birthrate are irrelevant, as I wrote in “The government’s measures are like “getting five children out of one person”. As you can see, this time I would like to talk regarding “the problem of young people leaving rural areas.”
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At one point, there was a lot of talk regarding “Tokyo’s population outflow”, but…
During the corona crisis, there were persistent reports of a “population outflow from Tokyo” for a period of time. In particular, there are many Kyodo News articles that local newspapers use as source material. From July 2021 to February 2022, every month when the statistics come out, it will be titled “Outflow for consecutive months in Tokyo”.making an articleI was doing it.
However, in theory, there was no outflow of population from Tokyo. It must have flowed from July to February. However, in Japan, people move in March and the market is fixed. Even if you take out only the months other than March, which is the most moving month, and make a big fuss as if you caught a demon’s head, you can only smile bitterly. In fact, following March 2022, this “population outflow from Tokyo” article has almost disappeared.
As already announced in the latest 2022 Annual Report on Migration, the overconcentration in the Tokyo area has not changed. On the contrary, even if we look at its long history, there have only been two periods when the population has flowed out of the Tokyo area, during the oil crises and during the collapse of the bubble economy. The government established the Minister for Regional Revitalization in 2015, but of course no regional revitalization has taken place since then.
