This stories are continuing yesterday. "If the smallest organization in a nation's constitutional unit is the family, the family should first become cheerful." he said. "Cities, towns and villages are next. If regional communities become cheerful, the entire nation can be revitalized with competition among regions. I think. The idea is not top-down but bottom-up." The idea is not top-down but bottom-up."
Japan has been vexed by its increasing rural-urban economic disparities.
According to fiscal 2004 statistics, the per head average income was \2,970 million against \3,188 million in fiscal 1996. The lowest ranked was Okinawa Prefecture with \1,987 million and the highest was Tokyo with \4,559 million, a disparity of 2.3 times.
Advances of large stores following relaxed regulation have decimated once thriving shopping streets in many cities, and even in the nature-rich countryside, forests have increasingly been damaged.