Sixth

Yokoze Town
Comprehensive Development Plan
3rd Term Yokoze Town Comprehensive Regional Revitalization Strategy

Contents
Basic Concept

Basic Plan (Seven Pillars)

1. Purpose of this plan (P.03)

Pillar 1: Developing people (P.09)

2. Plan structure and term (P.03)

Pillar 2: Promoting health (P.11)

3. Future population projections

Pillar 3: Promoting safety and security (P.14)(P.04)

4. Land usage concepts (P.04)
5. Plan direction (P.05)

Pillar 4: Creating industry and employment(P.17)

Pillar 5: Creating a Vibrant Town Center (P.20)
Pillar 6: Creating landscape and environment(P.22)

Pillar 7: Creating community (P.25)
Foundation supporting the Seven Pillars (P.27)

Greeting
The Sixth Yokoze Town Comprehensive Development Plan (Second Term) has been completed, withthe cooperation of many people.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone that has assisted in this.
There are four main features of the Yokoze Town Comprehensive Development Plan.
(1) The term is 8 years, or double a normal 4-year term (it was shortened from 10 years to 8 to allow it torespond to rapid changes in the times and to match the mayoral cycle)(2) It is thin, and not too wordy (so that residents can easily pick it up and read)(3) It was developed by us, without any outsourcing (we expressed our own thoughts in our own words)(4) It has detailed and specific numerical targets (specific and hightargets)

During the four years of our last Basic Plan, we suffered theharsh eternality of COVID-19, but I believe that as a town we havestill been able to make steady progress, one step at a time. We
have formulated our plan for the second half based on what wehave learned and experienced from this time, and by listening again
to the opinions of our residents. The biggest change that we havemade is that the Basic Concept now includes the new indicator of
the wellbeing of each resident, which is a goal of this plan. We
continue to value dialogue with our residents and look forward toworking with you as we develop this town, one step at a time. We
appreciate your continued support.

Sixth Yokoze Town Comprehensive Development PlanTOMITA Yoshinari,
Yokoze Mayor

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Basic Concepts
2020-2027

1. Purpose of this plan
Yokoze Town is implementing various measures based on the “Sixth Yokoze Town Comprehensive
Development Plan” which was formulated in 2020. In 2014, the government formed a “Long-term Vision for the
Revitalization of Towns, People and Jobs,” beginning efforts to revitalize regional areas. In 2015, Yokoze Town
formulated the “Yokoze Town Comprehensive Regional Revitalization Strategy, under which it has undertaken
a variety of measures.
In recent years, the environment surrounding the local area has been changing at unprecedented speed,
including with repeated natural disasters, new emerging technologies, and various forms of globalization, etc.
The town is working with residents and other town stakeholders to further expend its efforts so far and to flexibly
respond to this rapidly changing era to systematically realize the goal of becoming “Japan’s proudest, mostlivable town,” and formulated the “Sixth Yokoze Town Comprehensive Development Plan,” including the“Second Yokoze Town Comprehensive Regional Revitalization Strategy.” The “Third Yokoze Town
Comprehensive Regional Revitalization Strategy” was also included along with the formulation of the second
term basic plan.

2. Plan structure and term
(1) Plan structure
Basic
Concept

Basic
Plan

Outlines the future vision and direction of town development and sets
goals.

Basic
Concept

A basic plan for realizing the basic concept, with a first term plan
(Second Comprehensive Regional Revitalization Strategy) and second
term plan (Third Comprehensive Regional Revitalization Strategy)
formulated every four years.

Basic Plan
(first and second
terms)

Administrative activities for the next three years are formulated, taking

Implementation
Plans

Implementation
into account social conditions, financial conditions, and urgency, etc.,
Plans

to effectively and efficiently implement the administrative action of thebasic plan. This implementation plan will be formulated separately.

(established annually)(2) Plan term
For this plan, the basic concept was set to cover the eight-year period from FY 2020 to FY 2027, with the firstterm basic plan covering FY 2020 to FY 2023 and the second term covering FY 2024 to FY 2027.
Implementation plans are structured in units of three years, and they are revised every year.
2020-2023
Basic
Concept

8 years

Basic
Plan

ImplementationPlans

2024-2027

First 4 years
3 years

3 years

3 years

Second 4 years

3 years

Revised annually(on a rolling basis)

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3. Future population projections
Yokoze Town has a population of 7,748*1, but this population is expected to continue to decline going
forward, and if this continues it is expected to fall to about 5,000 in 2040 and 2,600 in 2060 (trending population).
The town is taking measures to curb this decline in population, such as improving the child-rearing environment
and encouraging people to relocate to the town and will also implement policies to prepare for and mitigate
future population decline, with the aim of maintaining a strategic population of about 6,500 in 2040 and 5,400 in
2060.
Second term
Peak population

First term

(Jan 2024)(1995)(Jan 2020)

abt. 7,748

10,194

8,194
Strategic
population (2040)
abt. 6,500

Trending
population (2040)
abt. 5,000

Strategic
population (2060)
abt. 5,400

Trending
population (2060)
abt. 2,600

4. Land usage concepts
Yokoze Town Land Usage Concept Map (Sixth)
Kumagaya-Ogawa-Chichibu
Prefectural Road

Urban zone
Residential zone

Industrial zone
Rural settlement zone
Parks, green spaces andforest zones
Tourism and recreation zones
Rivers and reservoirs
National Highway 299

Trunk roads
Town area
Urban planning area
Ome-Chichibu
Prefectural Road

*1) Based on Basic Resident Register, as of January 2024.

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5. Plan direction(1) Future vision and goals of this plan.
Future vision

Japan’s proudest, most livable town
Goals of this plan
A beautiful and colorful town. A town of diverse
happiness. A town where the beautiful, colorfulscenery changes with the seasons, and where thepeople interact warmly. A town where everyone isdifferent but lives happily in their own way.
Yokoze Town has set being “Japan’s proudest, most livable town” as its future vision, and is promoting
various policy measures to maximize the happiness of our residents and to achieve maximum effect withminimal cost. To realize this future vision, this plan has set the goal of being a “Colorful Town,” promoting fully
diverse town development.

(2) Seven Pillars
This plan will focus on the following seven pillars for measures to realize a “Colorful Town.”
Pillar 1: Developing people
Create a town where it is easy to raise children and where children can live vibrant lives, through theseamless cooperation of child-rearing support and education, to develop people capable of living happy
and resilient lives in a rapidly changing society.
Pillar 2: Promoting healthCreate a town that is friendly to the elderly and people with disabilities, where everyone can live withphysical and mental health, by strengthening prevention and welfare measures for a super-aging
society and an era of 100-year lifespans
Pillar 3: Promoting safety and security
Create an environment in which everyone from children to the elderly and people with disabilities canlive safely and securely without worry, by promoting disaster prevention, crime prevention, fire
prevention and road safety measures. Also promote sustainable administrative management.
Pillar 4: Creating industry and employment
Create an environment in which people can realize diverse working styles and lifestyles suited to theirpersonalities, to attract people, goods, money and information by encouraging people to move to thetown and promoting agriculture, forestry, commerce and industry
Pillar 5: Creating a Vibrant town center
Promote a lively town taking advantage of the town’s features of openness and friendliness, with theaim of increasing visitors for tourism etc. (exchange population) and the number of people from outsideof the town who have diverse interactions with the local community (related population). Also make useof the town’s main facilities, such as the station and community spaces, to revitalize the downtown area
as a central space and create a town filled with hope, excitement and anticipation for the future.
Pillar 6: Creating landscape and environment
Create a comfortable living environment which values nature and fosters a lifestyle that is close tonature and in coexistence with the environment. Also create a sustainable living environment that
effectively utilizes vacant homes and idle farmland.
Pillar 7: Creating community
Create a town full of diversity in which local people help each other in times of trouble or difficulty, bycontinuously fostering many circles of warm-hearted people.

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(3) Foundation supporting the Seven
Pillars
As a foundation supporting the overall policy andthe further enhancement of the feasibility of this plan,
we are building an environment in which every worker
can maximize their capabilities and promotesustainable administrative management. In addition to
working with residents, we are actively cooperating withbroader stakeholders and the private sector, etc. We
are also actively adopting even more “people-friendly
technologies” and promoting the creation of a town thattakes on challenges and also supports people who takeon challenges.

Foundation supporting the seven pillars● Maximize worker capabilities ● Promote sustainableadministrative management ● Promote cooperationand participation ● Utilize wide-area collaboration andself-sustainable settlements● Utilize private sector vitality ● Utilize people-friendly
technologies ● Take on challenges(4) Yokoze Town and SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)*2 consist of 17 goals and 169 targets to promote sustainable
development in an integrated manner in the three dimensions of the global economy, society, and theenvironment. The town has incorporated the concepts from the SDGs into this plan, aiming to solve local issues
while also achieving the SDGs. In promoting this plan, we are maintaining a consciousness of the basic
concepts o the SDGs of “Leave No One Behind,” aiming to realize a “Colorful Town” that respects diversity.

*2) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are international goals for the period of 2016 to 2030 which were adopted at a
United Nations Summit in September 2015. They consist of 17 goals and 169 targets, and are a universal set of initiatives for not only
developing countries but developed countries also to work towards, and Japan is also actively working towards these initiatives.

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(5) Yokoze Town and Wellbeing
In the second term Basic Plan of the Sixth Yokoze Town Comprehensive Development Plan, thefollowing indicators were incorporated for each of the seven pillars to promote the “wellbeing*3” of every
resident. The seven pillars of the Sixth Comprehensive Development Plan for the creation of a “ColorfulTown” begin with “developing people” and end with “creating community.” The focus of this policy is“People.” The aim is to create a town of “diversity in which everyone can live their own way.”

Wellbeing indicators for the seven pillars

Pillar 1: Developing people
Easy place to raise children and have children live a vibrant life.
Pillar 2: Promoting healthFeel physically and mentally healthy.
Pillar 3: Promoting safety and security
Not feel worried about disasters or crime.
Pillar 4: Creating industry and employment
Financial freedom to do and buy what you want.
Pillar 5: Creating a vibrant town center
Sense of expectation, excitement and anticipation for the town’s
future.
Pillar 6: Creating landscape and environment
Feel close to nature.
Pillar 7: Creating community
People help each other in times of trouble or difficulty.

*3) In this town, “wellbeing” is defined as “living happily the way you want to live,” and we seek to do everything we can as agovernment to make this possible. Wellbeing indicators have been developed based on the opinions received in the “Town Voices
Listening Project” conducted from June 2023 and the “Survey of 1,000 Residents” conducted in August.

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Second Term Basic Plan
Third Yokoze Town Comprehensive Regional
Revitalization Strategy

Foundation supporting the seven pillars● Maximize worker capabilities● Promote sustainable administrative management● Promote cooperation and participation● Utilize wide-area collaboration and self-sustainable settlements● Utilize private sector vitality● Utilize people-friendly technologies● Take on challenges

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Creating community

Creating landscape andenvironment

Creating a vibrant town
centerCreating industry andemployment

Promoting safety andsecurity

Promoting health

Developing people

A beautiful and colorful town. A town ofdiverse happiness. A town where thebeautiful, colorful scenery changes with theseasons, and where the people interact
warmly. A town where everyone is different
but lives happily in their own way.

Pillar 1: Developing People
1. Aims
We aim to create a town where it is easy to raise children and where children can live vibrant lives, and which
fosters people who can live happy and resilient lives in the rapidly changing future, through seamless cooperation
between child-rearing support and education.

2. Major Initiatives(1) Improve childcare services, expand systems for providing information, consultations and support for child-rearing,and strengthen systems that allow parents to have hope as they raise their children, with someone nearby thatthey can talk to when they face worries or trouble. Also work to improve support for everyone to be able to raise
their children with peace of mind, including the prevention of child abuse and reducing financial burdens. Also
provide opportunities for parents and children to come together and interact in a casual manner and provide
appropriate guidelines and play opportunities for children from homes where parents are away during the day,thus promoting the healthy development of children.
(2) In school education, work to cultivate the qualities and abilities of teachers and staff and promote work stylereform, and to promote the use of ITC in education, while respecting the individuality and personality of each
student and steadily nurturing life skills (Strong academic ability, rich humanity, health and physical ability for arobust life, and media and information literacy), and enhancing student’s motivation to learn and non-cognitive
abilities.
(3) Actively promote human rights education and awareness activities through the sharing of accurate information onhuman rights education, awareness and human rights issues, in cooperation with local and human rights
institutions, etc., to ensure that all residents respect each other’s human rights and to create a bright, livable local
community. Also work to improve human rights consultation systems to resolve any human rights worries orconcerns, including LGBTQ+, abuse and domestic violence.
(4) Promote policies that allow everyone to participate equally and with their own intent in all aspects of society.
[Main jurisdictional departments: General Affairs Div., Resident Affairs Div., Health and Childcare Div., Board of
Education]

3. Basic Goals to be Achieved
Ref.
Value

Item

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
TargetPercentage of people who feel it is easy to raisechildren and that children live vibrant lives (%)

No. of births (people)

Total fertility rate (%)
Saitama Prefecture Academics and Learning Status
Survey of Overall Growth in Academic Achievement inElementary and Junior High Schools (Comparison withgrowth targets for Yokoze Town students) (stages)*4*4) The Saitama Prefecture Academics and Learning Survey describes academic abilities in 36 levels. The difference in academic
ability from the previous year is expressed as “growth in academic ability” for each subject from fifth grade of elementary school to
the third grade of junior high school.

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4. Key Indicators to be Achieved
Indicator

Responsible
Dept.

Percentage of women in the Town Council(%)

GeneralAffairs Div.

No. of children under 15 who moved in(people)Resident
Affairs Div.

Total No. of annual users of local childcare
support center programs (people)

Health andChildcare Div.

Total No. of annual users of after-school
childcare center (people)

Health andChildcare Div.

No. of children enrolled in day-care
centers (people)

Health andChildcare Div.

No. of items achieving 80% of targets for“Disciplined attitudes” in the Saitama Prefecture
Academics and Learning Status Survey(items/total items)

Board of
Education

Percentage of students receiving A, B or C
grades in the New Physical Education test(%)

Board of
Education

Ref.
Value

FY 2024 FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
Target5. Key Related Individual Plans
Name

Responsible
Dept.

Target period(FY)

Fourth Yokoze Town Gender Equality Plan

GeneralAffairs Div.

–

Basic Act for Gender Equal
Society

Health andChildcare Div.

–Child and Child Care Support
Act

Board of
Education–

Basic Act on Education

Yokoze Town Child/Childcare Support
Program Plan
Yokoze Town Basic Education Promotion
Plan

Underlying law, etc.

6. Relationship with SDGs: Key Related Goals and Targets

Goals

Targets

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Pillar 2: Promoting Health
1. Aims
Strengthen prevention and welfare in anticipation of a super-aging society in which people live into their 100s,
and create a town that is friendly to elderly people and people with disabilities where everyone can live with physicaland mental health.

2. Major Initiatives(1) Support the mental and physical health of everyone at every stage of life, from children to adults.
(2) Monitor the health of children and their families, from pregnancy and childbirth, creating a healthy and comfortableenvironment for raising children.
(3) Provide support to help residents think about their health and take needed steps to maintain and improve it.
(4) Encourage the taking of health checks and medical examinations and proactively provide specific health guidance,
health education and consultations to encourage people to visit appropriate medical institutions to prevent, detectand treat diseases early.
(5) Work to promote sports and enhance programs centered on walking, in which people of all ages can participate,fostering a walking mindset among residents to make the town “the most walkable town in Japan.”(6) Continue to share information and raise awareness on the knowledge of mental health and work to improve
consultation services and home visits to achieve a state of mental and physical wellbeing.
(7) Support and cooperate with local welfare organizations, including the Social Welfare Council, the main local
welfare organization, and actively promote local welfare activities.
(8) Work to prevent the need for long-term care so elderly people can live healthy and independent lives, while also
actively strengthening connections between people through elderly salons, etc. Also support people with dementia
to be able to live in their familiar local community. In addition, continue the mobile supermarket program aimed at
improving the convenience of daily life.
(9) Enable people with disabilities to independently live their own lives by improving consultation systems,
strengthening cooperation with relevant organizations, and providing various support such as improving theenvironment and providing employment opportunities.
[Main jurisdictional departments: Resident Affairs Div., Long-term Care and Welfare Div., Health and Childcare Div.]

3. Basic Goals to be Achieved
Ref.
Value

Item

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
TargetPercentage of people feeling physically andmentally healthy (%)
Healthy life expectancy at age 65 *5 (Men)(years)Healthy life expectancy at age 65 (Women)(years)*5 The period for which a person who reaches the age of 65 can expect to live a healthy and independent life. More specifically,
this is the period until a person reaches the level of “Care Level 2” or higher.

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4. Key Indicators to be Achieved
Indicator

Responsible
Dept.

National Health Insurance medical
expenses per person (JPY)Resident
Affairs Div.

Medical expenses per late-stage elderly
person (JPY)Resident
Affairs Div.

National Health Insurance specific healthcheckup attendance rate (%)

Resident
Affairs Div.

Late-stage elderly person medical healthcheck attendance rate (%)

Resident
Affairs Div.

National Health Insurance specific healthguidance implementation rate (%)

Resident
Affairs Div.

Total No. of users of Elderly Salons andOrange Cafes (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

Total No. of annual users of mobile
supermarket program (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

No. of people registered at Silver Human
Resource Centers (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

Total No. of annual residents using
General Welfare Centers (Welfare
Centers) (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

No. of participants in preventive long-termcare programs (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

No. of participants in Dementia Supporter
Training Courses (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

Total No. of annual participants in
exchange programs with people withdisabilities (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

Total No. of people taking sign language
courses (people)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

No. of participants in walking activities(people)Health andChildcare Div.

Percentage of people receiving gastriccancer screenings (%)

Health andChildcare Div.

Percentage of people receiving coloncancer screenings (%)

Health andChildcare Div.

Percentage of 1 year and 2-3 month oldchildren receiving health checks (%)

Health andChildcare Div.

Ref.
Value

FY 2024

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FY 2026

FY 2027
Target5. Key Related Individual Plans
Responsible
Dept.

Target period(FY)

Underlying law, etc.

Third Yokoze Town Data Health Plan

Resident
Affairs Div.

–

National Health Insurance Act

Fourth Yokoze Town Specific Health
Checkup Implementation Plan

Resident
Affairs Div.

–Act on Assurance of Medicalcare for Elderly People

Sixth Yokoze Town Plan for Persons with
Disabilities/Seventh Disability Welfare
Plan/Third Child Disability Welfare Plan

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

–Act on Providing Comprehensive
Support for the Daily Life and Life inSociety of Persons with Disabilities

Third Yokoze Town Community Welfare
Plan/Yokoze Town Community Welfare
Activity Plan

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

–

Yokoze Town Elderly Welfare Plan/Longterm Care Insurance Program Plan (Ninth)Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

–

Yokoze Town Child/Childcare Support
Program Plan

Health andChildcare Div.

–Child and Child Care Support
Act

Third Yokoze Health Plan 21 (Health
Promotion Plan/Food Education Promotion
Plan)

Health andChildcare Div.

–

Health Promotion Act

Yokoze Town Suicide Prevention Plan

Health andChildcare Div.

–

Basic Act on Suicide
Prevention

Name

Social Welfare Act
Act on Social Welfare for the
Elderly Long-Term Care InsuranceAct

6. Relationship with SDGs: Key Related Goals and Targets

Goals

Targets

Goals

Targets

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Pillar 3: Promoting Safety and Security
1. Aims
Promote disaster prevention, crime prevention, fire prevention and road safety measures to create anenvironment in which everyone, including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, can live safely andsecurely without worry about disasters or crime. Also promote sustainable administrative management.

2. Major Initiatives(1) Continue conducting practical disaster prevention drills to foster an awareness of the dangers of natural
disasters among residents. Share hazard maps with residents through media and other opportunities anduse them in drills, encouraging active participation particularly from younger generations. Also, regularly
update information on residents in need of assistance in evacuation and share this information closely with
relevant stakeholders. In addition, promote the maintenance of disaster prevention supplies and equipmentin preparation for emergencies.

(2) Review organizations and work to strengthen firefighting capabilities by securing new fire corps volunteers,
improving conditions, and improving equipment and materials, etc., due to the decline in fire corps
volunteers as the population declines.
(3) Conduct activities such as traffic safety campaigns in cooperation with police and traffic safety
organizations to raise awareness, with particular concern for vulnerable road users such as children, theelderly, and people with disabilities. Also, continue installing traffic mirrors and warning signs at dangerous
locations such as intersections with poor visibility etc., to prevent traffic accidents.
(4) Improve the convenience of local public transport, such as railway, route buses, share taxis and taxis, etc.,by reviewing the overall system, taking into account the elderly and people with disabilities, who arevulnerable to the transport system.
(5) Levy and collect appropriate town taxes and actively secure financial resources to promote sustainableadministrative management.
(6) Improve the safety and convenience of users by prioritizing main town roads and school routes along
national and prefectural roads, and routes desired by local residents. Also promote proper maintenanceand management for road bridges by updating bridge longevity plans through regular inspections andsoundness evaluations and carrying out repair work on high priority bridges.
(7) Ensure the safety of users and reduce traffic congestion by promoting the early completion of sidewalk
construction and improvement of intersections on wide-area trunk roads, such as National Highway 299,
and the major regional road Kumagaya-Ogawa-Chichibu Line.
(8) Promote bank construction and dredging on Class A rivers, including the Yokoze River, and takemeasures to prevent overflow and flooding due to typhoons and heavy rains.
[Main jurisdictional departments: General Affairs Div., Town Management Div., Tax and Accounting Div.,
Resident Affairs Div., Long-term Care and Welfare Div., Construction Div.]

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3. Basic Goals to be Achieved
Ref.
Value

Item

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
TargetFY 2026

FY 2027
TargetPercentage of people satisfied with disasterand crime prevention measures (%)

No. of casualties due to disasters (cases)

No. of crimes (cases)
Financial soundness ratio (future burden ratio)(%)

Municipal (town) tax revenue (JPY 100M)
No. of traffic accidents involving elementaryand junior high school students (cases)

4. Key Indicators to be Achieved
Responsible
Dept.

Indicator
No. of fire corps volunteers (Actual
number/capacity (people)

GeneralAffairs Div.

No. of participants in disaster prevention
drills (people)

GeneralAffairs Div.

No. of Traffic accidents (personal injury
accidents) (case)

GeneralAffairs Div.

No. of share taxi users (people)

Municipal (town) tax collection rate
(%)

Ref.
Value

FY 2024

FY 2025

Town
Management
Div.
Tax and
Accounting
Div.

General consultation desk consultation rate
(No. of consultations/town population x 100)(%)

Resident
Affairs Div.

No. of traffic safety awareness activities forthe elderly, etc. (Traffic safety advice: No. ofvisits to local comprehensive support centers)(activities)

Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.

Length of road improved (town roads)(km)

Construction
Div.

Length of roads with sidewalks (km)Construction
Div.

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5. Key Related Individual Plans
Name

Responsible
Dept.

Target period (FY)

Underlying law, etc.

Yokoze Town Regional Disaster
Prevention Plan

GeneralAffairs Div.

Basic Act on Disaster
Management

Yokoze Town Civil Protection Plan

GeneralAffairs Div.

Civil Protection Act

Yokoze Town Regional National Resilience
Plan

GeneralAffairs Div.

Basic Act on National
Resilience

Yokoze Town Financial Plan

Town
Management
Div.

Yokoze Town Comprehensive Management
Plan for Public Facilities, etc.

Town
Management
Div.

–

Yokoze Town Individual Public Facility
Plans

Town
Management
Div.

–

Yokoze Town Regional Public
Transportation Action Plan

Town
Management
Div.

Yokoze Town Evacuation Support Plan forresidents in need of assistance inevacuation (Overall Plan)

Long-term Careand Welfare Div.
Health andChildcare Div.

Yokoze Town Child/Childcare Support
Program Plan

Health andChildcare Div.

–Child and Child Care Support
Act

Yokoze Town Building Seismic Retrofitting
Promotion Plan

Construction
Div.

–

Act on Promotion of Seismic
Retrofitting of Buildings

Yokoze Town Bridge Longevity Repair Plan

Construction
Div.

–

Road Traffic Act

Yokoze Town Forest Road Facility
Longevity Plan

Construction
Div.

–

Forestry Agency Forest Road
Regulations

Yokoze Town Urban Planning Master Plan

Construction
Div.

–

City Planning Act

April 22, 2014 MIAC Notice“Promotion of the Comprehensive
and Planned Management of
Public Facilities, etc.”

Basic Act on Disaster
Management

6. Relationship with SDGs: Key Related Goals and Targets
Goals

Targets

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Pillar 4: Creating Industry and Employment

1. Aims
Create an environment in which people, goods, money and information can continue to gather by promoting
migration and the development of agriculture, forestry, and commerce and industry, so that people can realize theirown unique working and living styles.

2. Major Initiatives(1) Improve conditions for those who want to live a life based on agriculture to increase the number of settlers
involved in agriculture and increase the appeal of agricultural management to foster agricultural successors. Also,
strengthen agricultural foundations through farmland patrols by agricultural commissioners, support for farmland
conservation efforts, and the use of cropland intermediary management institutions.
(2) Create an environment that strengthens cooperation between commercial and industrial business operators sothat they can maintain and improve sustainable management capabilities. Also promote the managementfoundations and business succession of commercial and industrial business operators.
(3) Promote the attractiveness and an image of the town as easy to live and work in and create opportunities toexperience life in the town to encourage people to move in, settle, and start businesses.
(4) Develop employment measures through industry-academia-government and wide-area collaboration, promote theintroduction of digital technologies in commercial and industrial businesses, utilize outside human resources suchas regional revitalization cooperation volunteers and regional revitalization entrepreneurs, etc., and create a new
economic cycle and promote industry. Also create an environment in which people can do what they want andexperience financial comfort through the creation of job opportunities.
(5) Actively utilize the hometown and company hometown tax systems. Aim to increase the number of payers and theamounts paid by polishing up existing gift products, developing new gift products, and enhancing our e-commerce
site, etc.
[Main jurisdictional departments: Town Management Div., Promotion and Development Div.]

3. Basic Goals to be Achieved
Ref.
Value

Item

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
TargetPercentage of people who feel the financial freedom
to be able to do what they want and buy what theywant (%)

No. of people moved out (net loss) (people)

Total hometown tax/corporate hometown tax
donations (JPY 1,000)
No. of new employees at businesses (through
Hello Work) (people)

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4. Key Indicators to be Achieved
Indicator

Responsible
Dept.

Total No. of passengers using town train
stations (people)

Town
Management
Div.

Total No. of outside human resources used(regional revitalization cooperation teams,
town regional revitalization entrepreneurs)(people)Town
Management
Div.

Total No. of business proposals on
Public-Private Partnership Platform(proposals)

Town
Management
Div.

Total No. of Public-Private Partnership
Platform business related entrepreneurs(people)Town
Management
Div.

Total No. of Public-Private Partnership
Platform business related migrants(people)Town
Management
Div.

Total No. of Public-Private Partnership
Platform business media exposures(exposures)

Town
Management
Div.

No. of attracted companies(companies)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Area of idle farmland (ha)Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Total roadside station sales(JPY 100M)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

No. of business innovation plan approvals
acquired (cases)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

No. of grants to promote permanent
employment for residents (grants)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Ref.
Value

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
Target5. Key Related Individual Plans
Name
Yokoze Town Agricultural Promotion
Region Establishment Plan

Responsible
Dept.

Target period (FY)

Underlying law, etc.

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

1999 –Act on the Establishment ofAgricultural Promotion Regions

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6. Relationship with SDGs: Key Related Goals and Targets

Goals

Targets

Goals

Targets

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Pillar 5: Creating a Vibrant Town Center
1. Aims
Promote a vibrant town known for its openness and friendliness, by increasing the number of visitors for tourism
and other purposes (exchange population) and the number of people from outside the area with diverse connections
with the local community and its people (related population). Also, use the town’s main facilities such as the stationand community spaces, etc. to revitalize the town center and create a town that is full of hope, excitement andanticipation for the future.

2. Major Initiatives(1) Actively develop tourist attractions in cooperation with the Yokoze Town Tourism Association with an eye toinbound tourism to attract many tourists.
(2) Continue to develop walking courses for residents and people from outside the town to be able to walk safely,
securely and with a sense of excitement, while strengthening cooperation with leaders in the field of walking topromote “the most walkable town in Japan.”(3) Work to provide comprehensive support for mountain climbing and hiking trails and the development of safe andsecure mountain climbing and hiking trains to make mounting hiking more comfortable, including on Mt. Buko, thesymbol of the Chichibu region.
(4) Promote the enhancement of the function of the area around Yokoze Station as a transportation hub, improving
convenience for railway users. Also strengthen cooperation with Chichibu City in considering the planned MiyajiYokoze Line (tentative name) to serve as a linking road to the West Kanto Expressway.
(5) Make effective use of various town center facilities such as Area 898 and town-owned assets such as Water Park
Shirayama, the former Ashigakubo Elementary School, etc. and idle assets, encouraging the inflow of people,
goods, money and information, increasing exchange population and related population, and developing new local
resources and expanding the local community. Also, by creating this base, create an environment in which there
are opportunities for interaction between residents and related population and opportunities to take on challenges
such as places for co-creation, etc.
[Main jurisdictional departments: Town Management Div., Health and Childcare Div., Promotion and Development
Div., Construction Div.]

3. Basic Goals to be Achieved
Item

Ref.
Value

FY 2024

Percentage of people who feel hope, delight andexcitement regarding the future of the town (%)

No. of visitors (tourists) (people)

No. of passengers at Yokoze station (people)

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FY 2026

FY 2027
Target4. Key Indicators to be Achieved
Responsible
Dept.

Indicator
Total No. of new and effective use cases
for Town-owned Assets (No.)

Town
Management
Div.

No. of users of migration, settlement
and exchange promotion facilities(Area 898, etc.) (people)

Town
Management
Div.

No. of exchanges and collaborations withother local governments, universities andcompanies, etc. (No.)

Town
Management
Div.

No. of participants from outside the town
in healthy walking classes (people)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

No. of times Yokoze Town Tourism
Association website accessed (No.)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Ref.
Value

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
Target5. Key Related Individual Plans
Responsible
Dept.

Name

Target period (FY)

Underlying law, etc.

Third Yokoze Health Plan 21 (Health
Health andPromotion Plan/Food Education Promotion
Childcare Div.
Plan)

–

Health Promotion Act

Construction
Div.

–

City Planning Act

Yokoze Town City Planning Master Plan

6. Relationship with SDGs: Key Related Goals and Targets
Goals

Targets

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Pillar 6: Creating Landscape and Environment

1. Aims
Value nature and foster a lifestyle of coexisting with nature, in a comfortable living environment where people canfeel close to nature. Also, make effective use of vacant houses and idle farmland to create a sustainable living
environment.

2. Major Initiatives(1) Understand the actual state of vacant houses and encourage the proper management of vacant houses, andpromote their effective use with the sale, rental and renovation of vacant houses using a vacant house database(Akiya bank). Also promote the demolition of dilapidated vacant houses that have a negative impact on thesurrounding environment.
(2) Build energy-efficient and zero-carbon homes and renovations, etc. to promote energy and resource conservation.
In addition, promote activities to prevent the illegal dumping of waste, a common issue in the Chichibu area, andraise awareness of the 4Rs*6, promoting the reuse and recycling of waste resources.
(3) Promote water purity and beautiful clear streams so that people can use waterside areas with peace of mind.
(4) Prevent wild animals from invading homes and causing harm to people. Also, in addition to supporting activities toprotect farmland, implement measures in cooperation with relevant organizations etc. to prevent damage by birds
and animals and reduce damage to agriculture. In addition, make use of ICT to implement efficient measuresagainst bird and animal damage, reduce the burden on members of hunting associations, and secure hunting
association membership.
(5) Promote forest management systems such as forest intention surveys and consolidation to effectively advanceforest management. Also build a system for promoting sustainable forest management by cultivating new forestry
workers in cooperation with relevant organizations and through the utilization of the forest environment transfer tax.

(6) Work with volunteers to create parks that are comfortable and beautiful, and that residents can be proud of,
attracting people from inside and outside of the town.
(7) Carry out rapid development in underdeveloped areas within the Specific Environmental Protection Sewerage
System Project Plan area and develop combined septic tanks in Septic Tank Treatment Promotion areas toimprove public health and living environments.
[Main jurisdictional departments: Town Management Div., Promotion and Development Div., Construction Div.]*6) The 4Rs refers to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Refuse.

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3. Basic Goals to be Achieved
Ref.
Value

Item

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
TargetFY 2026

FY 2027
TargetPercentage of people who feel close to nature (%)

No. of Vacant House Database properties handled(No.)
No. of home renovation (vacant house) subsidies
granted (No.)
No. of grants to remove dilapidated vacanthouses (No.)
Area of agricultural damage from wildlife (ha)Achieved water quality environmental standard(Yokoze River lower downstream BOD: mg/L)

4. Key Indicators to be Achieved
Responsible
Dept.

Indicator
Amount of combustible/non-combustible
waste (per person per day) (g)Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Amount of recyclable waste (per person
per day) (g)Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

No. of Resident Clean Patrol members(people)Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Total No. of energy-efficient homes(homes)Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

No. of hunting club members (people)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Total area of consolidated artificial forest(ha)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

No. of projects subsidized under Forest
Environment Transfer Tax (No.)

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Total No. of volunteers participating in
Hanasakiyama Park maintenance(people)Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Population sewage treatment coveragerate (%)

Construction
Div.

Ref.
Value

FY 2024

FY 2025

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5. Key Related Individual Plans
Responsible
Dept.

Target period(FY)

Yokoze Town Forest Improvement Plan

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

–

Yokoze Town Agricultural Promotion
Area Development Plan

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

Yokoze Town Basic Domestic Wastewater
Treatment Plan

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

–

Water Pollution Prevention Act

Third Yokoze Town Global Warming
Measures Action Plan

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

–Act on Promotion of Global
Warming Countermeasures

Yokoze Town Bird and Animal Damage
Prevention Plan

Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

–

Yokoze Town Vacant House Measures
Plan

Construction
Div.

–

Special Measures Act on the
Promotion of Measures for
Vacant Houses, etc.

Yokoze Town Specific Environmental
Protection Sewerage System Project Plan

Construction
Div.

–

Sewerage Act

Yokoze Town Public Sewerage (Second
Phase) Stock Management Plan

Construction
Div.

–

Sewerage Act and Guidelines
for the Stock Management of
Sewerage Businesses

Yokoze Town Sewerage Business
Management Strategy

Construction
Div.

–

Promotion of Sewerage in Yokoze Town
(Priority Plan)[Comprehensive Social Capital Development
Plan]

Construction
Div.

–

Guidelines for Grants forComprehensive Social Capital
Development

Plan for Promoting the Creation of a
Recycling-oriented Society

Construction
Div.

–

Guidelines for Grants for
Promoting the Creation of a
Recycling-oriented Society

Name

Underlying law, etc.

Basic Guidelines for Securing
Agricultural land, etc.

August 29, 2014 MIC Notice

Points to Note when Managing
Public Enterprises

6. Relationship with SDGs: Key Related Goals and Targets
Goals

Targets

Goals

Targets

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Pillar 7: Creating Community
1. Aims
Continue to foster many warm relationships to create a town with rich diversity where local people help eachother in times of concern and difficulty.

2. Major Initiatives(1) Support and develop activities for people and organizations involved in the community to support each otherthroughout the region. Also strengthen relationships among people at familiar places in the community including
community gathering places and elderly salons, etc. In addition, provide active support for local community
activities, such as the assignment of village support staff, etc.
(2) Continue to examine new ways to involve residents while supporting local groups, companies, NPOs, and schools,
etc. as cooperative partners in promoting urban development through resident participation.
(3) Work with Silver Human Resource Centers and volunteer organizations, etc. to promote activities that focus onconnecting families and community. Aim to maintain and improve an environment in which the community canhelp each other and live in comfort, health, and peace of mind.
(4) Raise awareness of the need to prevent fraud through warnings over disaster prevention radio and safety emails
to prevent harm from special fraud. Also work with police and crime prevention organizations to conduct crime
prevention activities such as visiting elderly people in their homes and conducting Blue Security Patrols.
(5) Aim to create and improve unifying forces for young people with a long-term view of creating an atmosphere andenvironment that attracts young people to the town.
(6) Promote collaboration between schools, families and communities to create open school and education
environments for the community, through activities such as school support groups and community schools, andevents that utilize resources within and outside the town.
(7) Support lifelong learning (social education organizations, community centers, public halls, libraries).
(8) Properly protect, preserve and utilize cultural assets, hand down traditional culture, and promote culture and arts
through the Yokoze Music Festival and Resident Cultural Festival.
(9) Promote healthy and vibrant town development through sports. Promote lifelong engagement in sports andrecreation, by properly maintaining and making effective use of social sporting facilities.
[Main jurisdictional departments: General Affairs Div., Town Management Div., Long-term Care and Welfare Div.,
Health and Childcare Div., Promotion and Development Div., Board of Education]

3. Basic Goals to be Achieved
Ref.
Value

Item

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
TargetPercentage of people who feel that others in thecommunity will help each other in times ofconcern or difficulty (%)
Percentage of people who want to continue livingin the town (%)
Satisfaction with the response of city workers(%)

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4. Key Indicators to be Achieved
Indicator

Responsible
Dept.

No. of recognized special (communications)fraud cases (cases)

GeneralAffairs Div.

No. of times town website accessed
(No.)

Town
Management
Div.

No. of assigned village support staff(people)Percentage of participants at 25-year-old
gatherings (%)
No. of people registered at volunteer
centers (people)
Yokoze Festival participation rate(participants/town population x 100)
(%)

Ref.
Value

FY 2024

FY 2025

FY 2026

FY 2027
TargetTown
Management
Div.
Town
Management
Div.
Long-term
Care andWelfare Div.
Promotion andDevelopment
Div.

School education supporter rate (actual
number of school education
supporters/town population x 100) (%)
Town Cultural Festival participation rate(participants/town population x 100)(%)

Board of
Education
Board of
Education

Yokoze Music Festival participation rate(participants/town population x 100)(%)
Annual sporting event participation rate(participants/town population x 100)(%)

Board of
Education
Board of
Education

5. Key Related Individual Plans
Name

Responsible
Dept.

Target period (FY)

Underlying law, etc.

Yokoze Town Basic Education Promotion
Plan

Board of
Education–

Basic Act on Education

6. Relationship with SDGs: Key Related Goals and Targets
Goals

Targets

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Foundation Supporting the 7 Pillars—Realizing the Plan
The foundation that supports the seven pillars to realize the goal of this plan of a “Colorful Town” is very important.
We will actively work on the following as a foundation to further improve the feasibility of this plan.

1. Maximize the capabilities of staff
Secure staff and allocate them appropriately based on optimized staffing plans, provide training for staff,
improving individual specialized skills, and strengthen teamwork through team building to create an environment inwhich staff can demonstrate their abilities in various administrative fields. Also, with a motto of “open and friendly,”
aim to be “the most approachable town in Japan” by having staff gather a wide range of information from residents
and from outside of the town, and by expanding the circle of people who place importance on relationships and dialog.

2. Promote sustainable administrative management
Flexibly respond to social and contemporary trends and promote efficient administrative management while
maintaining a sense of planning. Also, seek to achieve maximum results with minimum expenses by levying andcollecting appropriate town taxes, actively securing financial resources, and selecting and concentrating on effective
projects with a view to medium to long-term financial management. Promote sustainable administrative management
through these efforts.

3. Promote collaboration and participation
Work to encourage all residents, regardless of gender or age, or whether they have disabilities, to take an activerole in town development and administration, working to improve PR, public hearing activities, and information
disclosure.

4. Make use of wide-area collaboration and self-sustaining settlements
Make active use of the Chichibu Wide Municipal Area Association and other systems for self-sufficient settlements
which help fulfill the roles of both urban and daily living environments. Also promote diverse collaboration among
diverse municipalities in a wide range of fields, making use of the resources and characteristics of each municipality,
including small ones, etc.

5. Make use of the vitality of the private sector
Continue to embrace vitality from outside private sector, schools, and finance, etc., and formulate a regional
revitalization plan that makes active use of public-private partnerships, including a corporate hometown tax system.

6. Make use of people-friendly technologies
Take security measures to protect personal information, etc., and make appropriate and proactive use oftechnology to improve convenience for residents, communicate with residents, and streamline administrative work.

7. Taking on challenges
Emphasize “taking on challenges” and continue to be a town that takes on challenges. Also support people insideand outside of the town who want to take on challenges through “Public-Private Partnership Platforms,” etc.

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