Japanese municipality, Yamatsuri Town, is coming under the spotlight.
Actually, it is said that many Japanese small municipality in which a lot of youngsters are moving out there can't afford to maintain their finance.
Normally, these municpality which can't get enough taxes and subsidy from the goverment have to be absorbed by near municipality, however, Yamatsuri Town come up with ingenious idea.
The most striking action is building library with being given all books by people living in Japan. Thanks to this way of gathering books, this town reduce a lot of costs to build a library.
In Japan, recently, it is common for us to sell books we don't need read anymore. But instead of getting slight money from selling them, why don't we give them to like that small municipality to save them.
This is a little warming news I happend to watch on TV today.
>Yamatsuri Town
日本の矢祭町が今熱いようです。
過疎化が進むと謳われる昨今ですが、
市町村合併という事態に陥らないために、
財政をうまくやりくりしているようなのです。
そのやりくりの代表的な試みというのが、
今回テレビで取り上げられた、”もったいない図書館”。
日本中から寄贈された本のみで作られた図書館らしいのです。
ブックオフに売るんじゃなくて、地方自治体に寄付してしまう。
これって斬新なアイデアじゃないですか。
読まない本はどんどん寄付して、
どこかの町を救ったほうがいいんじゃないの？
そんな風に考える人が増えそうな気がします。
そんな新しい可能性を感じた、
少し心が暖かくなるニュースだったのでした。
Yamatsuri Town
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