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Recommendation for Small Concession (May 2026 Edition): The Achievement of the Three Steps × Four Cases in the MLIT-Cabinet Office Joint Guide
…velopment Policy Division and Cabinet Office Private Finance Initiative Promotion Office jointly published "Recommendation for Small Concession: Guide for Utilizing Idle Public Facilities." …
SCPF Newsletter 2026-06 Public Call Review — Small Concession Trends in the Last 3 Months
…LIT's Policy Bureau and the Cabinet Office's Private Finance Initiative Promotion Office jointly established the Small Concession Platform (SCPF) in December 2024, and its operating secretar…
MLIT's Small Concession Guidebook Explained — Three Walls, VFM Exemption, and Contract Risks [May 2026 Release]
…LIT's Policy Bureau and the Cabinet Office's Private Finance Initiative Promotion Office jointly published 'Small Concession Recommendations — A Handbook for Utilizing Idle Public Facilities…
Water PPP After the Osaka Expo — Two 'First-in-Japan' Cases, Wide-Area Consolidation, and the 2027 Deadline Municipalities Now Face
Municipal water/sewer department staff facing the FY2027 (Reiwa 9) grant requirement and tasked with deciding on Water PPP adoption. Planning staff in Osaka-prefecture and Kansai-region muni…
PPP/PFI FAQ for Private Sector Operators — Entry, Procedures, and Risk Questions Answered
…Basics FAQ Q1. What is the market size of PPP/PFI projects? The Cabinet Office revises its PPP/PFI Action Plan each year. The latest, the 2026 revision, aims for 40 trillion yen in project v…
Public Asset Activation in Shikoku — Potential and Challenges in a Blank Zone
…acterize the region as a "blank zone" for PPP/PFI broadly. National Comparison Park-PFI adoption is published prefecture by prefecture, so the gap can be checked directly against the list. P…
Small Concession Financing — What Municipalities Paid in the Handbook's Cases, the Caps on the Two Study-Cost Subsidies, and the Interest Subsidy Rate and Term
…ring the project, the scale of financing the private operator has to raise and the risk of recovering that investment both fall, which is expected to make participation easier . The money qu…
Small Concession Platform — Benefits of Membership and How to Use It [2026 Edition]
…e integrated functions: information sharing, public-private matching, and project formation support. Membership is completely free . Local governments, private businesses, NPOs, incorporated…
PPP/PFI Introduction — The Essential First Read for Municipal Officials [2026 Edition]
…tatistics and case expenditure. The term "PPP/PFI" appears frequently in government documents and news coverage, yet the two concepts are often conflated. A clear definitional foundation is …
What Is a Small Concession? A Complete Guide for Local Government Officials [2026 Edition]
… a Small Concession A Small Concession is an initiative in which local governments leverage private-sector ingenuity to undertake small-scale PPP/PFI projects involving idle public real esta…
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