Inagi City comprehensive strategy for revitalizing town, people, and jobs

Japan has entered an era of population decline since 2008, and is faced with the challenges of maintaining regional areas and overcoming population decline. In response to this, on September 12, 2014, the national government approved the ``Law for Revitalizing Towns, People, and Jobs'' as a guideline for the national and local governments to make concerted efforts to address the issue of population decline.

Starting with the ``Inagi City Long-term Comprehensive Plan'' in 1975, Inagi City has formulated four long-term comprehensive plans and has worked on various measures. As a result, even as Japan as a whole faces a declining population, the population continues to increase, and this trend is expected to continue for the next 10 years or so. However, it is true that from a long-term perspective, it is inevitable that the population will eventually decline. Furthermore, given that there is no silver bullet for population issues and that it takes a certain amount of time for various countermeasures to show results, it is important to take countermeasures at this stage, before the population is facing decline.

In response to the above-mentioned current situation, Inagi City has established the "Inagi City Town, People, and Jobs Revitalization Comprehensive Strategy Formulation Committee" in order to overcome population decline and shrinkage of the local economy from a long-term perspective. After a public call for proposals, we formulated the "Inagi City Comprehensive Strategy for Town, People, and Job Creation" (hereinafter referred to as the "Comprehensive Strategy").

Since this is the mid-year of the comprehensive strategy, we will evaluate and verify the progress of the comprehensive strategy based on the key performance indicators (KPIs) formulated in the comprehensive strategy in FY2017 to improve future measures. With the aim of achieving this goal, we held the Inagi City Comprehensive Strategy Verification Committee for Town, People, and Job Creation.

At that time, we added three new projects in order to achieve the four basic goals set out in the comprehensive strategy, steadily advance the creation of towns, people, and jobs, and make them sustainable.

The current comprehensive strategy is a five-year plan from FY2015 to FY2019. The next comprehensive strategy will be formulated to be consistent with the Fifth Inagi City Long-term Comprehensive Plan (tentative name), which is Inagi City's top plan, and the timing of its formulation will also be determined by the (tentative name) Fifth Inagi City Long-term Comprehensive Plan. This will be done in FY2021 in line with the formulation of the long-term comprehensive plan.

For FY2020, we will extend the current comprehensive strategy by one year to avoid a blank period until the next comprehensive strategy is formulated, and we will continue to manage progress based on key performance indicators (KPIs) etc. .

In the national government, regional revitalization is a long-term policy that aims to share a sense of crisis with the next generation and the generations after that, halt population decline, and restore vitality to each region. In order to continue the awareness and efforts of regional revitalization that took root in the first period from fiscal 2020 onwards, and to ensure progress toward the next step, we have established a plan for the next five years under the "long-term vision." We will continue to maintain the current framework of implementing basic goals and measures in a "comprehensive strategy," and will formulate a second "comprehensive strategy" to further enhance and strengthen regional revitalization. Masu.
For regional revitalization, it is important for each region to have motivation and enthusiasm and independently and proactively carry out initiatives that leverage the strengths and attractiveness of the region. Taking into consideration the "Comprehensive Strategy for Job Creation," 2021 (Reiwa 3) will be the first year in order to simultaneously and integrally work on the revitalization of the city, people, and jobs in the city, following on from the first period. We have formulated the second comprehensive strategy for revitalizing Inagi City's town, people, and jobs.