第19回世界SC会議 スウォン大会（韓国）Challenge forSocial Governancein SC Initiatives
Yoko Shiraishi
Ritsumeikan University
Mature Life InstituteMore communities
start to learn about SC
cf. visiting communities working for SPbased on the concept of SC

There seems to be some additional
expectations in SC

Local Communities confront;•More diversified and complex problems• Shortage of fund and manpower

Need newstrategies for effective andDecentralization
efficient community management
Required more;[ responsibility] [capacity]
for community management

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Trend of SC in Japan
Safe Community hadn’t drawn much attention
from local governments until recently

more recognized among communitiesÆespecially since the first designation in 2008.

LaunchDesignation

Population

Kameoka

2006(July)

2008

Towada2007(April)2009

6,6000

Atsugi2008(Jan.)(2010)

230,000

Minowa2009(Dec.)(Dec )

26 00026,000Toshima2010(Mar.)

260,000

Komoro2010(Mar.)

43,000

Yokohama(2010?)

12,6000

Sakae D.

95,000increasing no. of visits by communities

5There seems to be some expectation as asolution for their challenges
This research aims to analyze

expectation of influence / effects by SC
beside safety promotion, then to see reason
to considering introductionof the SC Model1

第19回世界SC会議 スウォン大会（韓国）[qualitative research]

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Main Goals in Comprehensive Plan

5To see expectation of influence /effects by Safe Community, examine;Î [ comprehensive master plan][ other written material about SC]

Kameoka

1. Improvement of citizen’s participation andcollaboration
2. Development of safety and security
3. Inheritance of abundant nature and culture

TowadaMake the city the place where citizen have;
1. comfortable lives based on safety and security
2. Sustainable lives with good use of limitedresources
3. Good collaboration with govt. based on trust- newspaper articles-official letters from mayors to SCCC

[ interviews of mayors, officials]

Main Goals in Comprehensive Plan
Make the city where citizens;
1. Safety
1. promotion
live in safety with mutual support > health2.
good environment
with nature
2. Schememake
designof3.
have
comfortableandconvenientlife
Collaboration among various parties
4. mature with continuous learning

LetterSafetyPromotion

collaboration

sustainability

Kameoka‐‐‐‐Towada-‐‐‐AtsugiX

XX‐

MinowaX

XX‐Toshima

XX

X

‐

KomoroX

XX‐

Atsugiin the community
Health, safety & security, collaboration
3. Sustainability, health promotion
Toshima
Collaboration & citizens participation……. >safety& security > health
MinowaKomoroSustainability, safety & security, health, collaboration

Collabora‐tion

Community
development

Other

Kameoka

X

X‐Improve city image‐Decrease the fiscal burden

TowadaX

X‐crosscross sectional approach

X

X‐Promote tourism‐Increase population‐Improve City image

X

X

AtsugiMinowaToshima
Komoro白石陽子

Sustainability

Citizens’ participation…anddiscussion
andImprove city image
XX
interview
XXwith mayors

5Research reveals that Japanese local
governments are expecting SC as a newmeasure of ;establishment of collaboration/ cocreation in city management bycapacity building among citizens
as well as safety promotion

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5In Japan, SC hasn’t drawn much attention fromlocal governments until recently.
Îunderstood as a set of programs for safety
g programs?)g)
promotion ((Å same as existing
5With challenges for more effective and efficient
community management, they become
interested in the strategies of the SC modelÎ establishment of a system in which variousparties find & solve problems in collaboration

2010/3/25

5Why more communities become to consider
adoption of the SC Model
before seeing notable change in safety?
Æ find formation of frame of collaboration
approach by seeing SC strategies in
Kameoka, Towada, and AtsugiÎbecome to see SC as a model of collaboration
by various parties in the community

Yoko Shiraishi
yokomature@cyberoz.net

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