2016年度の活動報告

Musashi University Faculty of Economics Department of Management　Noriyuki Takahashi

1. Overview of activities in 2016

This year, we carried out three main activities.

The first is the holding of a course called "Start-up! Nerima School: Children's Entrepreneurship School - What is society like?" sponsored by the Nerima Ward Industrial Promotion Corporation (Nerima Business Support Center). The university and Nerima Ward collaborated on planning, securing the venue, and supporting the operation on the day, and the course itself was conducted by an outside lecturer. Details are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Details of the program "Start-up! Nerima Juku 'Children's Entrepreneurship School' - What is society like?"

Date and Time	7month30Sun (Sat)10:00～18:00 ※Venue: Musashi University Building 11201classroom
Number of participants	20Number of people (capacity20given name)
Who can participate	4th to 6th grade
Lecturer	Coordinating instructor Sawako Kawaguchi (Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consultant) Modeling Instruction Mr. Kiyoshi Shimizu (CEO of Hishosha Co., Ltd. "Atelier Soluri")
Course Content	After acquiring the necessary business management knowledge, each team will start a company. They will sell products made from paper clay and compete for sales. In addition to nurturing future industrial human resources, the program also aims to cultivate children's creativity by creating products from paper clay.

The second is the implementation of a community business "research" course. This course has been held continuously since 2012. The research course is aimed at people who want to learn more about community business and those who have already started a business, and covers the environment surrounding community business and hot topics in the area. It is characterized by being aimed at a wide range of people, including those who are only interested, those who have no intention of starting a business themselves but are interested in supporting it, those who are considering starting one, and those who have already started. The ultimate aim is to form a "community" around community business. For this reason, the research course does not simply end with the lecturer giving a talk, but instead devotes the last 30 minutes or so to a place for participants to interact with each other.

This year, the event was held a total of five times. This year, the theme was "regional revitalization," and we asked people who are involved in supporting the region in various capacities to give lectures. It was a good attempt to keep the theme consistent.

However, one thing to reflect on is that the number of participants was lower than the capacity. Since we were unable to advertise the course on the Nerima ward's public bulletin board as we did last year (we received cooperation in publishing the ward newsletter), we set up the reception desk at Musashi Enterprises for the first time. It is unclear whether this had an impact, but there are still issues to be addressed in terms of how we publicize the course.

The themes of each course are shown in Table 2, and the number of participants is shown in Table 3.

Table 2 Contents of the Community Business Research Course

	Date and time	theme	Lecturer
1st	2016Tuesday, September 27th 188:30-8:30 p.m.	Keywords for regional revitalization	Yoshiaki Murakami (Chief Researcher, Japan Finance Corporation Research Institute)
2nd time	10Tuesday 4th of the month 188:30-8:30 p.m.	Regional development through the local specialty citrus fruit Jabara ~The challenge of the smallest village in Honshu, with a population of 450~	Teruyuki Ikegami (Chief of the Regional Business Division, Kitayama Village Office, Wakayama Prefecture)
3rd	10Tuesday, 11th of the month 188:30-8:30 p.m.	Business plan contest to produce entrepreneurial talent ~The Challenge of the Smallest City in the Chugoku Region~	Hajime Nakagawa (Director of Policy Planning and Regional Development Office, Gotsu City, Shimane Prefecture)
4th	10Tuesday, 18th of the month 188:30-8:30 p.m.	20 years of Tsuno Wine, together with the local community	Akira Obata (Director, General Manager and Factory Manager of Tsuno Wine Co., Ltd.) Mionko Okuma
5th	10Tuesday, 25th of the month 188:30-8:30 p.m.	Building my town: From the North Food Stalls to the Magic Museum	Kazuaki Sakamoto (CEO of Sakamoto Building Co., Ltd. and Sakamoto Shoji Co., Ltd., tourism guru, director of the Magic Museum)
Location		Musashi University Building 1, 2nd floor, Room 1404

Table 3 Number of participants (maximum 30 people)

Date	9/27	10/4	10/11	10/18	10/25
Number of participants	33	24	20	20	15

The third is a field survey of local community-based revitalization efforts.

This year, a total of three hearing surveys were conducted in three regions.

The schedule, themes, and main contents are as shown in Table 4. All of these are ongoing surveys.

Table 4. Outline of the field survey

times	schedule	Themes etc.	Main Contents
１	2017year 3month19Day ~21day	Field survey Yoron Town, Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture	Located at the southernmost tip of the Amami Islands, before Okinawa was returned to Japan,50The number of tourists, which used to be close to 10,000, is now15The population has dropped to about 1.2 million. There are several abandoned hotels on the island that cannot be demolished, so it is undoubtedly a tough environment. However, there are many people who are tired of large tourist destinations, and are attracted by the beauty of the ocean, which rivals that of Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, and the homey atmosphere that comes with being a small island, and become repeat visitors. This time, we interviewed key people in the tourism industry, including the chairman of Yoron Town's Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
２	2017year 2month21Day ~23day	Field survey Kitayama Village, Wakayama Prefecture Regional revitalization	In order to further develop revitalization measures that utilize local resources, we conducted a field survey on an initiative to focus on and sell locally grown citrus fruit, Jabara. We investigated groundbreaking initiatives in sparsely populated mountain villages and the current state of local administration. We also conducted interviews with the mayor and town hall staff.
３	2017year 4month25Day ~27day	Field survey Miyazaki Prefecture, Koyu District, Gunnomachi Regional revitalization	We conducted an on-site survey of a local third sector winery that processes grapes as agricultural products and ships them as wine. We also conducted interviews with wine makers and sales staff.

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