{"id":3541,"date":"2013-02-27T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2013-02-27T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:41:13","slug":"japanese-economic-growth-plan-shows-the-benefits-of-local-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/about-jlgc\/japanese-economic-growth-plan-shows-the-benefits-of-local-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese economic growth plan shows the benefits of local autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A participant on\u00a0JLGC’s\u00a0recent Japan Study Tour to Nagasaki, Guardian<\/em> Local Government Network<\/a> editor Hannah Fearn has a\u00a0piece in today’s Society Guardian <\/em>on Nagasaki’s green deal:<\/p>\n

“Yet, unlike many British cities, Nagasaki has a convincing vision for its future. Its prefectural government<\/a> (comparable to a large county council or combined regional authority) has set out a \u00a542bn (\u00a3295m) “green deal” for the region that links plans to increase tourism and improve its record on sustainability to its economic and industrial future.<\/p>\n

The plan is this: make up the population gap by encouraging tourism and use the tourist industry to spread sustainable behaviour such as driving electric vehicles (on Goto<\/a>, for example, all hire cars are already EV or PHV vehicles). Then use this expertise in eco-sustainability to develop a new industry in green technology (Mitsubishi <\/a>is already gathering expertise in offshore wind) to create jobs. If this “green deal” succeeds, it could convince the Japanese government to site a new offshore green energy hub within the prefecture, turning the region’s fortunes around.<\/p>\n

As Takahiro Suzuki, director general of the Nagasaki prefectural government, says: “This is a challenge to create a new society model from the island region \u2026 harnessing Nagasaki’s character and strengths to simultaneously promote twin goals of industrial development and job creation, and lowering carbon and going green.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A participant on\u00a0JLGC’s\u00a0recent Japan Study Tour to Nagasaki, Guardian Local Government Network editor Hannah Fearn has a\u00a0piece in today’s Society Guardian on Nagasaki’s green deal: “Yet, unlike many British cities, Nagasaki has a convincing vision for its future. Its prefectural government (comparable to a large county council or combined regional authority) has set out a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-jlgc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}