Hokkaido-Development For a New Age

With its vast expanse of land, Hokkaido is blessed with abundant high-quality water, extensive farmland, fishing grounds in three oceans, and rich forest resources accounting for almost a quarter of the total forestland in Japan. The prefecture thus has a wealth of environmentally friendly energy resources, such as wind, biomass and natural gas fields.
Hokkaido has contributed greatly to the stability and development of the nation as a whole as a center for food supplies, tourism and recreation, while capitalizing on these resources and characteristics of the prefecture and cultivating the frontier spirit – willingness to tackle new challenges – during the course of the history of its development since the Meiji era.
With the recent rapid economic growth in East Asia, problems with the global environment and energy resources, economic and social impact of a full-scale population decrease, falling birthrates and aging populations, the international community now stands at a major crossroads. Amid all this, the role required of Hokkaido is to lead efforts to develop into a sustainable economic society.
We hope that you will understand the need for projects implemented with the development of Hokkaido in mind, so that we may advance together based on the future vision of the Hokkaido of introduced in this pamphlet.

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