The cotinued from yesterday*** "If the smallest organization in nation's constitutional unit is the family, the familyshould 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."
Japan has been vexed by its increasing rural-urban economic disparities.
According to fiscal 2004 statisticcs, 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 hiest was Tokyo with \4,559 million, a disparity of 2.3 times.
Advances of large stores following relaxed regulations have decimated once thriving shopping streets in many cities, and even in the naturerich countryside, forests have increasingly been damaged.
Such trends are not unrelated to prosperring cities, This stories was over!