JOURNAL
Look up public asset reuse.
Find articles by keyword, topic or stage of your project.
Park-PFI in 2026: 203-Park Statistics, New Cases, and Policy Outlook
… "decarbonization," "Small Concession," and "abandoned school" appear zero times in the body of the 30 May 2025 edition. Nor does it draw any size line at a population of 50,000 or an area o…
Abandoned School Proposal Design — Selection Flow and Evaluation Criteria [2026 Edition]
What Is a Proposal-Based Selection Process? Abandoned school operator selection predominantly uses a proposal-based (competitive dialogue) approach rather than the price-competitive bidding …
Abandoned School × Welfare Facility Revenue Model — Estimating Type B Employment Support Fees and Facility Costs [2026 Edition]
What Changes When You Use a Closed School > The assumptions in the estimates that follow (number of users, operating days and facility cost amounts) are the article's own , not published sta…
Kamiyama and Green Valley: Population and Migration, the Buildings Used for Satellite Offices, and the College That Turned the Former Kamiyama Junior High School into a Dormitory
…amiyama lab) December 2010 Kamiyama training school (the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's job seeker support training) January 2012 First net migration gain in the town's history (12…
Abandoned School Reuse Failures — Why Repurposed Schools Become Idle Again: Structural Causes of Withdrawal and Business Collapse
Current Status of Abandoned School Reuse Declining birth rates and student populations mean that, as MEXT puts it, approximately 450 school facilities are closed each year . MEXT's own surve…
47 Former School Reuse Cases — Success Patterns and Failure Factors from Ministry of Education Data [2026 Edition]
Current State of Former School Utilization From FY2004 through FY2023, a cumulative total of 8,850 schools have been closed . By fiscal year, closures have not reached 450 in any year since …
Change of Use for Former Government Buildings — Three Legal Walls and How to Break Through Them
…ies Child welfare facilities, etc. (3) Schools, gymnasiums Museums, art museums, libraries, bowling alleys, ski slopes, skating rinks, swimming pools, sports practice facilities (4) Departme…
The Complete Guide to LABV (Local Asset Backed Vehicle) — Proposing Public Asset Development Without Waiting for Park-PFI Public Calls Through Municipal Land-Contribution LLCs
…-initiated) Government buildings, hospitals, schools Concession SPC Operating rights granted to private Public call Airports, water/sewerage Park-PFI Single operator / SPC Park facilities wi…
PPP/PFI Introduction — The Essential First Read for Municipal Officials [2026 Edition]
…ations Large facilities: offices, hospitals, schools PFI Act Concession Municipality retains ownership; transfers operating rights to private entity Airports, toll roads, water utilities PFI…
How to Reuse a Closed School: Survey Counts, MEXT's List of Closed Schools Seeking Uses, the Property Disposal Procedure, and National Subsidies
…icipal staff considering how to use a closed school (boards of education, asset management, public facility management). You can check the survey counts, listing a school on MEXT's list, the…
How to Repurpose an Abandoned School — A Complete Step-by-Step Guide from Site Selection to Proposal [2026 Edition]
The Current State — What 8,850 Schools and Structural Inertia Mean School consolidation keeps adding to Japan's cumulative count of closed school buildings. According to MEXT data, the cumul…
READING GUIDE
Choose a starting point.
Follow a short route through the basics, examples and practical steps. Community groups, researchers and students are welcome.
ROUTE 01
For municipal planning
Start with the basics, then move through cases, process and dialogue design.
- What Is Public Facility Management? Challenges, Concepts, and Next Steps
- Sapporo Yurigahara Park Park-PFI LiLiLi — Sapporo's First Case, Community-Led SPV Park Operation
- The Complete Park-PFI Process — A Four-Year Roadmap from Concept to Opening [2026 Edition]
- Market Sounding for PPP: 8-Item Question Template and Step-by-Step Guide
ROUTE 02
For prospective operators
Understand the system, test viability and prepare a proposal.
- What Is a Small Concession? A Complete Guide for Local Government Officials [2026 Edition]
- Higashi Yuenchi URBAN PICNIC — Kobe Sannomiya Redevelopment and Park-PFI After 8 Years of Citizen-Led Social Experiments
- How to Build a Park-PFI Revenue Plan — With Simulation Template [2026 Edition]
- How to Write a Park-PFI Proposal — Working Backward from the Scoring Criteria [2026 Edition]
ROUTE 03
Learn from setbacks
See how projects stall and which conditions to avoid.
- Abandoned School Reuse Failures — Why Repurposed Schools Become Idle Again: Structural Causes of Withdrawal and Business Collapse
- 5 Patterns of Park-PFI Project Failure — Structural Analysis of Contract Termination, Financial Deterioration, and Resident Opposition
- The Zero-Response Sounding Problem — 5 Reasons Private Operators Don't Participate and How to Fix It