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Case Study 3: Tono Style Community Development

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Like many cities in Japan , Tono City in Iwate Prefecture faces the challenges of a declining population and an aging society.

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  • Egawa, Y., and other citizens related to the subject of this paper. 2014. Interviews by author in Tono City, Iwate Prefecture, 16–19 July.

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  1. Local Autonomy College, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Takeji Takei

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  1. Department of Global Business, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ayano Hirose Nishihara

  2. Infrastructure and Peacebuilding Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan

    Masaei Matsunaga

  3. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ikujiro Nonaka

  4. National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiyotaka Yokomichi

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Takei, T. (2018). Case Study 3: Tono Style Community Development. In: Hirose Nishihara, A., Matsunaga, M., Nonaka, I., Yokomichi, K. (eds) Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57478-3_4

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