2017年度の活動報告

Musashi University Faculty of Economics　Noriyuki Takahashi

2017年度の活動実績の概略

This year, we carried out four 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 worked together to plan the event, secure the venue, and provide support for the day's operations, while 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	Saturday, July 29th 10:00-18:00 * Venue: Musashi University Building 1, Room 1201
Number of participants	20 people (maximum 20 people)
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 female entrepreneurs, and lectures were invited from people who support women in various roles. Maintaining a consistent theme was a good attempt. However, one thing to reflect on is that the number of participants was lower than the capacity. This year, we were unable to advertise on Nerima's public bulletin boards, and this is thought to be one of the reasons for the lack of awareness (we received cooperation in publishing the event in the ward newsletter). The reception desk was set up at Musashi Enterprises, just like last year.

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	Tuesday, October 3, 2017 18:30~20:30	Don't just start a business. What growing companies do	Noriko Gomibuchi (CEO of YPP Co., Ltd.)
2nd time	Tuesday, October 10, 2017 18:30~20:30	Meal delivery service supporting elderly people living at home	Nobuko Takayabu (Manager of Parsley, a color scheme service provided by Green Co-op, a social welfare corporation)
3rd	Tuesday, October 17, 2017 18:30~20:30	Childcare business survives in a declining birthrate	Yumie Konishi (CEO of Primex Kids Co., Ltd.)
4th	Tuesday, October 24, 2017 18:30~20:30	Women's careers and balance: Business management that only "I" can do	Mari Nakamura (CEO of Care of Clover Co., Ltd.)
5th	Tuesday, October 31, 2017 18:30~20:30	Business management through marketing to the mother generation	Eiko Sakabe (CEO of SOHIE Co., Ltd.)
Location		Musashi University Building 1, 2nd floor, Room 1203

Table 3 Number of participants (maximum 30 people)

Date	10/3	10/10	10/17	10/24	10/31
Number of participants	17	18	13	20	18

Thirdly, a lecture was held within the research group to share the latest information on local community businesses under the theme of "Regional revitalization through cooperation between the public and private sectors - the challenges and achievements of the Yomitan Kukuru Resort Okinawa." Details are shown in Table 4.

Table 4: Lecture details

Date and Time	December 17th (Sun) 14:30-16:30 *The event will be held in Musashi University Building 1, Room 1402
theme	Public-private collaboration to revitalize the region ——The Challenges and Achievements of Yomitan Kukuru Resort Okinawa——
Number of participants	8 people
Lecturer	Mr. Masaaki Kuniyoshi (President and CEO of Yomitan Kukuru Resort Okinawa Co., Ltd.)
Course Content	He explained how the local community cooperated and developed during the reconstruction of the tourist facility "Murasakimura" in Yomitan Village. Afterwards, he explained the collaboration between the local government, the local community, and the Chamber of Commerce (private enterprises) for the Ryukyu Lantern Festival, which has been held since 2015, and then the participants had a discussion.

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

This year, we conducted two interviews in two regions. The dates, themes, and main contents are shown in Table 5. One was a continuing survey and one was a new survey.

Table 5. Outline of the field survey

times	schedule	Themes etc.	Main Contents
1	February 20th to 22nd, 2018	Field survey Yomitan Village, Okinawa Prefecture Regional revitalization	In order to further develop revitalization measures that utilize local resources, an event called the Ryukyu Lantern Festival is being held as a new measure to deal with the low season and attract visitors. Field surveys and ongoing surveys of this initiative are being conducted.
2	March 28-30, 2018	Field survey Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture Regional revitalization	This study investigates the efforts being made by Wakura Onsen in Nanao City, a town dominated by large inns, to make the town more attractive as a local area. In particular, the changes that have occurred since the Hokuriku Shinkansen was extended to Kanazawa in March 2015.

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