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Vacant School Utilization Case Collection (March 2023 Edition)

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology / PDF / approx. 5 MB

Official MEXT case collection featuring successful vacant school utilization examples nationwide. Classified by industry: welfare, education, tourism, manufacturing, agriculture, coworking, lodging, and dining. Includes about 30 representative cases from the past 20 years (2002-2022) with business structures, revenue models, and lessons learned.

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This document is part of MEXT Vacant School Facility Utilization Promotion ("Everyone's Vacant School" Project). To get the original, find it by name on the publisher's page.

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Collection compiled: 2023-03-31. For the version and date of each document, check the original itself.

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47 Former School Reuse Cases — Success Patterns and Failure Factors from Ministry of Education Data [2026 Edition]

For municipal officials: the 47 cases in MEXT's casebook on repurposing closed schools (March 2023), counted by the uses the casebook assigns and listed in full. The most common use is company or organization facilities (22 cases). Why welfare conversion is chosen, the renovation costs and subsidies in Nishiwaga, Nagaoka and Yokkaichi, and how consensus with residents was built, all read from the casebook.

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Abandoned School × Welfare Facility Revenue Model — Estimating Type B Employment Support Fees and Facility Costs [2026 Edition]

An estimate of the finances of opening a disability welfare service facility in a closed school, using Type B continuous employment support as the example. Covers the base fee tiers from June 2026, the special rule for newly designated facilities, the rule on paying user wages, how to work out the facility cost difference, and cases in Nishiwaga (Iwate), Nagaoka (Niigata) and Yuni (Hokkaido), all checked against MHLW, MEXT and other primary sources.

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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

Kamiyama town in Tokushima Prefecture: its population and in- and out-migration, the history of the NPO Green Valley, the buildings used for satellite offices and trial facilities, and the private college of technology that renovated the former Kamiyama Junior High School, received from the town, into its dormitory, checked against the town's statistics, documents published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the pages of Green Valley and the college.

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Munakata City's Former Oshima Gakuen — Reusing a Closed School on a World Heritage Island

On Oshima in Munakata City, Fukuoka, the consolidation of elementary and middle schools into a compulsory education school has left a former school building requiring repurposing. As a remote island housing components of the UNESCO World Heritage 'Sacred Island of Okinoshima,' this case sits at the intersection of tourism, community exchange, and settlement promotion under unique constraints.

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Latest Trends and Statistics in Abandoned School Revitalization【2026 Edition】

2026 Edition: The latest statistics from MEXT's survey, the uses whose counts changed since the previous survey, and national measures and subsidy programs. What municipalities and operators considering abandoned school projects should know as of 2026.

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