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Five Years of MLIT Hands-On Support: A Framework for Municipal Staff to Realize PPP/PFI Projects Themselves
…Hokkaido Memuro Town Heated pool DBO (Design-Build-Operate) project Ibaraki Shimotsuma City Public facility consolidation and complexification project Saitama Moroyama Town Public-private pa…
How to Write a Park-PFI Proposal — Working Backward from the Scoring Criteria [2026 Edition]
…es. Evaluators ask: "Will this make the park better?" "Can this continue for 20 years?" "Will the community accept this?" A plan that is excellent as a commercial venture but fails to show c…
Direct Operation vs. Private Outsourcing — A Comparison Framework [2026 Edition]
…ey results, number of programs offered, etc. Building a Monitoring Framework After outsourcing, the municipality cannot simply defer to the operator. Regular monitoring (monthly, quarterly, …
Small Concession in Hokkaido — Strategies for Utilizing Vast Land and Idle Facilities
… features various facilities — closed school buildings, former government offices, former public housing, former hospitals — providing information for companies considering satellite offices…
Park-PFI Succeeds Even in Municipalities of 23,000 — Strategies for Small-Scale Local Governments [2026 Edition]
…an permanent construction, shortening the payback period. Parks adjacent to agricultural land or coastline can command premium pricing through the promise of non-everyday experience. Pattern…
A Park-PFI Feasibility Study Costs 5 to 20 Million Yen. The Six Phases to Settle Before You Commission One [2026 Edition]
…is the commissioned advisory engagement that builds this decision-making basis. The feasibility study is a consulting and research service contracted to an external PPP specialist consultant…
Designing Park-PFI Scoring Criteria — Lessons from a Real 500-Point Scoring Table [2026 Edition]
… quality, stimulating the local economy, and building community partnerships. This item essentially asks: "What is this operator genuinely trying to achieve for the park and the community?" …
Designated Manager Withdrawals: What the MIC Survey Counts, and the Four Options Open to a Municipality
…joint venture of that foundation and Kokusai Building Service. What the previous operator learned over fifteen years does not transfer on its own. Structural Problems This Case Reveals The K…
Subsidies and Support Programs for Small Concessions — A Complete Guide [2026 Edition]
…for examining the project scheme and one for building the information base. Eligible costs are fees for commissioning studies or reviews to consultants and other experts. Within the budget, …
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
What is LABV LABV (Local Asset Backed Vehicle) is a public-private joint venture in which a municipality contributes public assets such as land in-kind, and private actors contribute capital…
How Local Companies Become PFI Lead Sponsors — Lessons from Yonago Joint Government Building and Date City School Lunch Center Companion-Model Success
…l companies. Case 1: Yonago Joint Government Building (Wide-Area PFI) One case featured in the First PPP/PFI Exemplary Case Awards (FY2023, Cabinet Office) is the wide-area PFI for joint gov…
5 Park-PFI Success Cases — From Large Urban Parks to Cities of 23,000 Residents [2026 Edition]
… solicitation guidelines were finalized. Feedback was obtained on the project scheme, enabling final adjustments to make conditions more amenable to private-sector participation. Participant…
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