WHITE PAPER ON LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM IN JAPAN, 2013

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1 WHITE PAPER ON LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT AND TOURISM IN JAPAN, 2013 Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

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3 Contents Preface Part I Towards Maintenance, Management and Renewal of Future Social Infrastructures - Social Infrastructures That Are Passed on from Aged to Age - Chapter 1 Social Infrastructures To Date and Challenges Open for the Future... 2 Section 1 History of Social Infrastructures and Their Roles Development of Infrastructures Viewed in Chronological Order Roles of Social Infrastructures Section 2 Climate of the Economic Society Surrounding Social Infrastructures Slipping into a Society of Sheer Dwindling Population Sagging Economy and Stiffening International Competition Tightening Financial Constraints Fragile National Land and Heightening Disaster Risks Section 3 Status of Maintenance and Management of Social Infrastructures Aging Social Infrastructures America in Ruins and Subsequent Approaches Trends in the Maintenance and Management of Social Infrastructures Conclusions Chapter 2 Social Infrastructure in the Future Section 1 Using it Wisely Residents Participating in the Maintenance and 1 Using the Market Mechanism Management of Social Infrastructure Ingenuity in Using Existing Stock Section 3 Taking a Far-sighted Vision Efficiency through Integration Perception of Burden on Future Generations Section 2 Supported by Everyone Planned Efforts with Future Strain in Mind Using PPP/PFI for Maintenance and 3 Using New Technology and Training Leaders for Management Maintenance, Management, and Upgrading Chapter 3 Major Efforts Made in the Fields of National Land and Transportation Section 1 Effort to Use Social Infrastructures Wisely Effective Road Space Utilization Forging a Compact City Section 2 Supporting Social Infrastructures by Everyone Driving PPP/PFI Resident Cooperation in Maintenance and Management Maintaining Local Public Transportation Section 3 Efforts to Take a Far-Sighted Vision of Social Infrastructures Efforts Made during the First Year of Social Capital Maintenance Activity and Carrying Them Forward through the Future Getting Construction Works Executed Right, and Securing Manpower to Undertake Them Conclusions Annotation 1 Estimating the Productivity Effect of Social Capital Annotation 2 Verifying the Welfare Effect of Social Capital Annotation 3 Estimating the Effects of the Compactness of a City May Have Upon Administrative Spending I

4 Part II Trend in MLIT Policies II Chapter 1 Initiatives towards Restoration and Reconstruction from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Section 1 The Current Status and Measures towards Section 5 Ensuring the Smooth Execution of Restoration and Reconstruction Reconstruction Projects Section 2 The Steady Recovery and Reconstruction of Section 6 Reconstruction, Revitalization and Etc. of Infrastructures and Transportation Fukushima Section 3 Promoting Post-Disaster Town Section 7 Developing Tsunami-resistant Communities Reconstruction and Securing Stability of learned from the Great East Japan Residency Earthquake Section 4 Securing Local Public Transportation and Promoting Tourism Chapter 2 Deploying Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Administration Tailored to Urges of the Times Section 1 Driving the Implementation of a National Land Policy Package Section 2 Driving the Implementation of Third Priority Plans for Social Infrastructure Development Section 3 Promoting the Implementation of Transport Policy Basic Act on Transport Policy New Institutional Approaches to Enhanced Local Public Transportation Section 4 Driving the Implementation of Ocean Policy (Oceanic State) Section 5 Efficient, Prioritized Deployment of Measures Driving Improvement of the Total Cost Structure of Implementation of Public-Works Projects Chapter 3 Realizing a Tourism Nation and Beautiful Nation Building Section 1 Trends in Tourism Significance of a Tourism Nation Tourism Now Section 2 Approaches to Forging a Tourism Nation Creating and Promoting a Japan Brand Fueling Japanese Travel with Eased Visa Requirements, etc Improving Reception of Inbound Foreign Tourists Consolidating International Competitiveness in the Field of MICE Ensuring the Quality of Public Works and Promoting Proper Tendering and Contracting for Public-Works Projects Section 6 Forming a New Phase of Relationships between the Central and Local Governments and Private Sector New Phase of Relationships between the Central and Local Governments Driving Public-Private Partnerships, etc Section 7 Policy Evaluations, Project Evaluations and Interactive Administration Driving Policy Evaluations Implementation of Project Evaluations Driving Administrative Management Open to the Nation and Interactive Administration Section 8 Approaches to Hosting Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Consolidating the Tourism Industry and Developing Human Resources Developing Attractive Tourism Area Encouraging holiday taking Preparing tourism statistics Section 3 Building a Beautiful Nation Blessed with Pleasing Landscapes, etc Pleasing Landscape Formation Community Development Leveraging Nature and History Chapter 4 Promoting Regional Revitalization Section 1 Approaches to Regional 2 General Endeavors to Realize an Intensive Urban Revitalization Structure Section 2 Promoting Measures Supporting Regional 3 Urban Planning and Infrastructures Development Revitalization Taking Advantage of Regional 1 Efforts Directed at Augment Regional and Characteristics Private Self-reliance and Discretion

5 4 Self-Reliance and Revitalization of Wide-Area Blocks, and Formation of National Land Promoting Regional Partnerships and Interaction Securing Means of Regional Transport Section 3 Promoting Urban Reconstruction Projects, etc Promoting Urban Reconstruction Projects Promoting Urban Development by Private Sectors Approaching National Strategic Special Districts Section 4 Promoting Localized Promotion Measures Measures Drected at Heavy Snowfall Areas Promoting Remote Islands Development Promoting and Developing the Amami Islands and Ogasawara Islands Promoting Peninsulas Section 5 Promoting Integrated Development of Hokkaido Promoting the New Hokkaido Comprehensive Development Plan to Lead the Era of the Global Environment Promoting Distinctive Regions and Cultures Chapter 5 Creating a Comfortable Living Space Section 1 Realizing Affluent Residential Living Developing City Parks, and Shaping a Good 1 Securing Stability of Residential Living and Urban Environment Advancing its Betterment Advancing Road Development that Prioritizes 2 Supply and Utilization of Good Housing Pedestrians and Bicycle Riders Land Section 3 Realizing Traffic with Enhanced Section 2 Realizing Comfortable Living Convenience Environments Chapter 6 Building a Competitive Economic Society Section 1 Constructing Traffic Networks Constructing Highways Constructing Arterial Railway Networks Constructing Aviation Networks Facilitating Traffic Access to Airports Section 2 Implementing Comprehensive and Integrated Logistics Policies Implementing Logistic Policies to Correspond with Deepening Global Supply Chains Measures Aimed at Building an Efficient Logistics System at Home Section 3 Reactivating Industries Trends in Railway Industries and Measures Trends in Motor Truck Transport Business and Measures Trends of Maritime Industries and Measures Trends in Air Transport business and Measures Trends in the Consigned Freight Forwarding Business and Measures Trends in the Warehousing Business and Measures Trends in the Truck Terminal Business and Measures Trends in the Real Estate Business and Measures Building a Sustainable Construction Industry Chapter 7 Building a Safe and Comfortable Society Section 1 Realizing a Universal Society Section 3 Ensuring the Safety of Architecture Realizing Accessibility through a Universal Section 4 Strengthening Safety Measures in the Design Concept Transport Sector Creating an Environment that Supports Childrearing 1 Establishing and Improving the Safety Under an Low Birthrate Society Management System of Public 3 Ageing Society Measures Transportation Promoting the Support of Pedestrian Travel Railway Transportation Safety Measures Section 2 Natural Disaster Measures Safety Measures for Maritime Traffic Shaping National Land that is Safe and Resilient 4 Air Traffic Safety Measures to Disasters, Enhancing and Strengthening the 5 Determining the Causes of Air, Rail, and Marine Framework of Preparedness for Emergency Accidents/ Serious Incidents and Preventing Management Recurrence Secure Transportation Systems Resistant to 6 Support for Victims and Families of Public Disasters Transport Accidents III

6 7 Safety Measures for Road Traffic Section 5 Crisis Management and Security Measures Promoting Crime and Terrorism Countermeasures Establishing a Response System for Accident Disasters Strengthening the Coast Guard System Protecting Our Country s Interests in Maritime Rights Security and Protecting Citizen s Lives and Assets Infectious Disease Measures Chapter 8 Creating and Preserving a Beautiful and Healthy Environment Section 1 Promoting Countermeasures against Global Warming Implementing Global Warming Countermeasures Promoting Global Warming Countermeasures (Mitigation Measures) Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energy Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (Adaptations) Section 2 Promoting the creation of a recycling society Advancing recycling in construction Constructing a resource recycling logistics system Recycling vehicles and marine vessels Efforts in Green Procurement Promoting the use of wooden building materials Section 3 National land development that revives and preserves the natural environment Initiatives for preserving biodiversity Creating rich and beautiful river environments Preserving and improving coastal environments Greening port and harbor administration Greening roads and promoting natural environmental measures Section 4 Building a healthy water circulation system Becoming a society that can enjoy the blessings of water Measures in building a healthy water circulation system in cooperation with ministries and agencies involving water Establishment of the Basic Law of Water Circulation and the law concerning the promotion of rainwater use Initiatives in improving the water environment Cultivating water and using it efficiently Realizing amenity by promoting improvements to sanitary drainage Section 5 Protecting the marine environment Section 6 Improving living environments by preventing atmospheric and noise pollution Policies for environmental issues related to road traffic Environmental measures for airports and surrounding areas Countermeasures for Railway Noise Countermeasures for urban heat islands Countermeasures for sick building syndrome and soil contamination Environmental measures in construction Section 7 Observing, monitoring, and forecasting changes in the global environment Observing and monitoring the global environment Research and Prediction of the Global Environment Promoting Global Mapping Project and the world geodetic network Chapter 9 Strengthening International Expansion and International Contributions Section 1 Promoting the Export of Infrastructure Systems Section 2 Promotion of International Cooperation and Negotiations General Direction of Government Policy Initiatives in the Field of Economic 2 The Concept of Infrastructure System Exports in Partnerships the Field of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Contributions and Strategic Utilization of International Organizations Upstream Involvement and Information 3 Cross-Sectoral Endeavors Dissemination Multilateral and Bilateral Initiatives in Individual 4 Development of Soft Infrastructure Sectors Supporting Businesses for Overseas Infrastructure Section 3 Efforts for International Standardization IV

7 Chapter 10 Utilizing ICT and Promoting Technology Research and Development Section 1 Promoting Innovation in the Field of 1 The Position of Technological Research and National Land and Transport Utilizing Development in Technology Policies and ICT Comprehensive Promotion Promoting ITS Promoting the Utilization and Adoption of New 2 Realizing a Society that Utilizes Geospatial Technology for Public Works Information Sophisticatedly Section 3 Improving Construction Management 3 Realizing an Electronic Government Technology Development and Opening of Optical Fiber for 1 Improving Costing Technology for Public the Management of Public Facilities and Its Works Housing Space CIM and BIM Initiatives Sophisticated Water Management and Water Section 4 Technology Development for Construction Disaster Prevention Utilizing ICT Machinery and Mechanical Section 2 Promoting the Research and Development Equipment of Technology Column Public Works Undertaken by Gyoki... 3 Private Management of Eitai Bridge in the Edo Period... 6 Hurricane Sandy vs. U.S. Disaster Preparedness Lives of Concrete Aging Condominiums Use of Toll-charging System Overseas PFI in Edo Period Construction of Canals by a Wealthy Merchant Various Funding Methods for Maintenance and Management Dobojo (play on word to mean engineer woman) ~Women Who Work in the World of Civil Engineering~ Skill Inheritance and Securing Technicians for Shikinen Sengu (installation of a new deity on a specified year) Efforts towards Creating the New Tohoku Achieving the 10-Million-Inbound-Foreign-Tourist Mark for the First Time in History Japan s First Cruise Train Seven Stars in Kyushu Just in Service Inaugurating a One-stop desk for Cruise Promotion Efforts Directed at Encouraging More Cruise Ships to Call in An Approach to Advancing Tourism Built around Bird Watching in Nemuro City Dam Regeneration -Utilization through the Redevelopment of Existing Dams Flood Control Projects Demonstrate Effectiveness Against Floods Caused by Typhoon Man-yi Emergency Warnings Begin Operations First Eruption in 39 Years Near Nishi-no-shima of the Ogasawara Islands Amendment of the Act on Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting of Buildings (Seismic Retrofitting Promotion Law) Responding to the Large-Scale Sediment-related Disaster in Oshima-Machi, Tokyo Metropolitan Area - Assistance and Strengthening of Sediment Disaster Measures by TEC-FORCE Ensuring the Safety of JR Hokkaido The Third Traffic Vision - Initiatives for the Safety of Vessel Traffic Measures to Improve the Safety and Regain Trust of Bus Operations The Promotion and Dissemination of Alternative Fuels in Aviation (Biojet fuels) Guiding Committee for GEBCO Coast Guard Marine Information Director elected Chairman Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development Japanese Construction Technology Contributes to Fulfilling Turkish Peoples 150-Year Dream - Opening of Bosphorus Cross-Strait Railway Efforts Toward International Standardization of Water Re-use Maps used in this white paper do not indicate exhaustive Japanese territory. V