Oecd Territorial Reviews Japan 2016

Japan is embarked on a demographic transition without precedent in human history: the population is both declining and ageing rapidly. This raises important questions about the country's future economic geography, as public policies will need both to respond to these shifts and also to shape them.

Japan is embarked on a demographic transition without precedent in human history: the population is both declining and ageing rapidly. This raises important questions about the country's future economic geography, as public policies will need both to respond to these shifts and also to shape them.

Annotation Japan is embarked on a demographic transition without precedent in human history: the population is both declining and ageing rapidly. This raises important questions about the country's future economic geography, as public policies will need both to resp.

This publication is part of a series of reviews undertaken by the OECD Territorial Development Policy Committee, which seek to give practical policy advice to national and regional government. This report focuses on Japan, where socio-economic challenges such as low growth, population ageing and depopulation, and new trade relationships with the East Asia region have required reform of economic and institutional systems. Issues discussed include progress made towards reform of territorial planning, regional economic policy, urban policy, rural development and administrative and fiscal decentralisation.

This report reviews Japan's progress with regional policy reform, such as reform of territorial planning, regional economic policy, urban policy, rural development and administrative and fiscal decentralisation.

This report looks at the northern sparsely populated areas of Finland, Norway and Sweden, which are becoming increasingly important to the geopolitical and economic interests of these countries and the European Union.

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