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Closed Schools × IT & Coworking: Ten Cases from the MEXT Casebook, Zoning and Urbanization Control Areas, Trial Satellite Offices and Grants
…town considered opening satellite offices in vacant facilities. It set up a council that included local residents and a preparatory committee for a town development company that added privat…
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
… ¥64 million with about ¥32 million from the Vacant House Comprehensive Support Project (空き家対策総合支援事業); Auberge Auf (オーベルジュ オーフ, designated manager) shows facility renovation of about ¥550 mi…
Abandoned School Use Change and the Building Standards Act — Renovation Requirements for Welfare Facility Conversion [2026 Edition]
…a change of use under the Act. Categories of Specified Buildings Appended Table 1 of the Building Standards Act divides the uses of specified buildings into items (1) to (6). Item (2) covers…
Subsidies for Closed School Reuse: All 6 Ministries Covered [2026 Edition]
…nd hands-on or exchange facilities using old houses and similar buildings 1/2 (capped at ¥25 million per project period) MAFF Same (settlement and exchange, industry support, agriculture-wel…
How to Repurpose an Abandoned School — A Complete Step-by-Step Guide from Site Selection to Proposal [2026 Edition]
…2% Government offices 449 4.3% Stockpile warehouses, universities, housing 332 3.2% Compared with the previous survey (as of 1 May 2021), schools (excluding universities) rose from 3,948 to …
READING GUIDE
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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