| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 亞洲研究所碩士在職專班 === 101 === Japan is facing serious concerns nowadays on declining birth rate and rapidly aging population. Young labors moving out of farms while remaining workforce growing old, the agricultural economic recession has forced Japanese government to deploy a series of tactics in various villages for revitalization of rural economy.
In the study of rural economy, company IRODORI successfully revives Kamikatsu-Chou of Tokushima Prefecture by local resource, creating a leaves business in traditional food decoration named TSUMAMONO, despite the town’s disadvantages of locating in semimountainous area, aging labors and depopulation. This research is seeking for a model for future reference during Taiwanese economic crisis, by analyzing the reasons and effects behind IRODORI’s success.
Toward the end of this research, the result shows that Kamikatsu-Chou’s local initiation of third sector department has further developed community business where industry-academia-government collaboration implants ICT trainings connecting elders between local farmers and associations. ICT also introduces ideas to innovation and differentiation, creating additional values like building local brand in the market. Eventually well communicated circle is formed, the town balances between social and economical aspects and is more open to external information for staying competitive in the market.
Likewise, depopulation and aging labor in Taiwan have also caused rural economic recession. Local governments unavoidably collect less tax revenue as insufficient agricultural productivity continues. By analyzing the success of IRODORI, it is central government’s duty to activate the use of local resource plus being aware of the cultural differences, reconstruct agricultural policies and to cultivate independent thinking of farmers. With the aid of ICT for supplementary measures, Taiwanese government shall well build public private partnership, develop human resource and intelligence, which may ultimately lead to industrial regeneration.
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