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Owase 2024-01-23~24

Jul 19, 202424 min read

0xtkgshn I’m on my way to Owase. I am going to visit Local Coop, which is working on a system of outsourcing services originally provided by local governments to the private sector using PFI (designated administrator system), SIB (social impact bond), etc. As mentioned in “Next Generation Government”, especially for software, I think the core needs to be centralized, but for applications, I think a more Civictech approach + support structure for them is a good idea. I think it would be good to have a support structure for them. (“Public administration as a platform”) The idea itself is not new, but I haven’t seen many examples of it working well. I would like to consider why it doesn’t work, and if it might work in local coop, and why.

Mie Prefecture Owase City imageimage GPS( Fog of the World )

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Local Coop

Owase Minna no Mori

A portion of the city-owned forest (approx. 91 ha) managed and owned by Owase City will be designated as the “Forest for Everyone (tentative name)” and a system will be established within the forest to connect the history, tradition, and pride of Owase cypress trees to future generations in a sustainable and biodiverse manner.

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Take back administrative services

Administrative contributions

Approaches to Connecting to Markets - carbon credit - > Carbon offsetting is the concept of compensating for greenhouse gas emissions by investing in activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in proportion to the amount of carbon dioxide emissions. In order to ensure that the amount of greenhouse gas emission reductions and removals used for carbon offsetting is reliable, the Japan Verified Emission Reduction (“J-VER”) System was established in November 2008 to certify emission reductions and removals resulting from domestic emission reduction activities and forest improvement. The J-VER (Japan Verified Emission Reduction) Scheme was established in November 2008 to certify the amount of greenhouse gas emission reductions and removals resulting from domestic emission reduction activities and forestation, and in fiscal 2013, the J-Credit Scheme was launched as an evolutionary integration of the J-VER Scheme and the Domestic Credit Scheme. - About J-Credit System and Carbon Offsetting | Global Environment and International Environmental Cooperation | Ministry of the Environment

  • The J-Credit System is a system under which the government certifies the amount of greenhouse gas emission reductions and absorption as credits.

  • It takes about two years before the money is actually earned.
    • The decision to spend upfront on this type of project is often difficult for local governments.
    • I don’t really know what to apply for.”
    • By combining an organizational system that operates on an annual budget with a private organizational system that does not operate on an annual budget, the inefficiencies caused by the budget system can be absorbed.
      • Similar story to what the Unexplored Corporation is doing to the IPA.nishio.icon
    • SINRA

Approaches to reduce costs

  • Cost savings will be the source of funds.
    • Municipalities stop collecting garbage and outsource it to the private sector.
    • Streamline and reduce costs in the private sector
  • Q: In the short term, will the cost to citizens increase and will hate increase?
    • There is a need to regain self-governance in local governments that have been swallowed up by “big municipalities” due to external factors such as municipal mergers and have lost their “self-governance” (= sense of being in control).
    • Many people prefer it if they can regain their “autonomy” by paying a small time cost.
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        • So social participation was lost for the sake of efficiency?
        • The customer value lies in the fact that some of the money floated by rationalization can be used to fund local public investment, and “autonomy” can be restored by opening up participation in decision-making to residents.

Blockchain-based citizens

  • Digital villager
  • Doesn’t have to be a blockchain, but doesn’t have to be implemented independently either.
  • Local governments are valuable in gaining attention.

Experience to go into the mountains and make a river

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stake a stake that has been burned

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  • Drop instead of shake
  • Sounds good when well struck.
  • I felt it was important to keep the stakes straight.nishio.icon
    • If the pile is straight, the impact of the falling hammer is transmitted all at once.
    • If it’s at an angle, the hammer is consumed by the rolling motion.

levee protection works

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  • It breaks down over time.
    • Look at it and know “how you want the water to proceed”.
  • It’s important to wait.
  • “Ignore.”
  • People can’t observe the hardness of the soil, the stones buried in it, or the roots.エネルギー最小化の解を事前に設計できないnishio.icon
    • Therefore, the design emerges after the fact by observing “how the water wants to proceed” and “fighting” it with minimal force.
    • So “water and time” is the calculator.

take the mud with one’s feet

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  • mud

    • Acidic, gray, smelly stuff.
    • Gly layer

      • A blue-gray or greenish-gray soil layer derived from divalent iron, which is produced in a reducing environment saturated with moisture. It is derived from the Russian dialect word gley (muddy soil), which refers to blue-gray soils in areas of poor drainage near peatlands. In waterlogged soils or poorly drained soils with high groundwater levels, microorganisms in the soil consume oxygen to break down the organic matter in the soil, creating a reducing environment.

  • I put a sword-tip shovel under the stone and used the principle of leverage to raise it up, and gray, smelly mud came out from underneath.nishio.icon

  • Hibiscus syriacus (species of flowering plant)

Digital Identity Wallet

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Kuki Town inspection

Owase City

  • The population, which was a little over 30,000, is down to 16,000.
    • 80% are in urban areas
  • The rest live in eight settlements.
    • 200~400 people.

[MSC certified

  • The certification system consists of two types of certification: Fishery Certification, which certifies that the fishery is sustainable and properly managed, and Chain of Custody (CoC) Certification, which prevents the mixing of certified and non-certified marine products during the distribution and processing processes. It is operated and managed by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), an international non-profit organization, and meets internationally agreed standards for seafood certification and eco-labeling systems, including the FAO’s “Guidelines for Marine Products Ecolabeling.

  • But the chain breaks because the port is not HACCP compliant.
  • A great blue heron was walking in the harbor.nishio.icon
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    • Scenes like birds walking in the harbor have great tourist value, but they can be problematic from a sanitation standpoint.

Owase Bussan

Sabaru Island

  • Located at the head of Owase Bay, the island is 4.65 ha in size, and the entire island is covered with warm-temperate evergreen forest. The main tree species are black pine, red pine, sudajii, and taimin-tachibana, etc. Sakaki kazura, nagi orchid, etc. can be seen in the shade.　The area is also home to the largest colony of herons in Japan, including the great blue heron, great egret, black heron, and white heron.

Site of a former thermal power plant

Owase is steep

  • Pushed up by tectonic activity
  • Owase Hinoki] forestry produced by steep terrain and one of the heaviest rainfall in Japan Owase City and Kihoku Town, Mie Prefecture (PDF) Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
  • Object of faith when God was a rock.

    • Iwakura (岩倉) refers to the belief in rocks in the ancient Shinto faith, or the rocks themselves that are the object of belief. It also refers to the rock itself, which is the object of worship.

      • Panji - Wikipedia
      • Shugendou

      • Kumano Sanzan, centering on Shingu, there are waterfalls in Ichiki (Ichiki), Nikijima (Niki), Miki (Miki), Yagi (Yagi), Kugi (Kugi), and “Seven Demons” at the back of Kada.

    • Mt Tenguakura

Ise-ji and Kumano-ji are the same road, but they have different names depending on the direction.

  • Kumano Kodo 20th anniversary
  • UNESCO world peace.
  • Twenty years ago the Gulf War.
  • Religious syncretism.
    • Stories of different religions merging without conflict.
  • What is Kumano Kodo? | Hajimete no Kumano Kodo Nakahechi Ryujin Jidosha

    • In the small place called Kii, four sacred places, “Kumano”, “Yoshino”, “Koya”, and “Ise” coexist. Kumano is the origin of the four sacred places. Kumano is the origin of the Japanese “spirit of mixing things up,” and it is a symbolic place that shows the world the acceptance of the diversity of the Japanese people.

    • In 2004, Kumano Kodo was registered as a World Cultural Heritage site as “Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range. It was because of the spirit of jumble.

    • It is not the unusual views or buildings, but the spirit of accepting and living together with all people that has continued since ancient times, and the nature and people of Kumano that nurtured this spirit, that resonated with the spirit of “world peace” that the World Heritage site aims for. In today’s world, when “diversity and inclusion” is so important, Kumano is a place that leads in this spirit.

Yakiyayama

Kuki Town

nine ogres

barren soil

  • It is a very difficult place to grow trees because the land is thin due to the abundant rainfall and steep terrain. But that is why we can produce high quality wood with dense annual rings and high durability by carefully nurturing the trees with human hands.

  • Owase Hinoki” is grown in this region, which has the highest rainfall and warmest climate in Japan, in steep terrain and barren soil, which are harsh conditions for trees to grow.

  • The toughness of “Owase Hinoki” became known throughout Japan when houses with pillars made of “Owase Hinoki” did not collapse during the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

    • Trees of Owase (PDF) Owase City
  • Market value increased as strong columns, but demand for column materials decreased due to the spread of the framed wall construction method.

    • The standard method of constructing wooden houses in Europe and the United States, known simply as “framing” in North America, but commonly referred to as “two-by-four construction” in Japan… In 1974, the technical standard for framed wall construction was announced, and it was opened as a general construction method… The wooden frame wall construction method is a box-shaped structure in which load-bearing walls and rigid floors are rigidly integrated, and is supported by walls and floors (facing materials) made of framed wood to which structural plywood is laminated, whereas the wooden frame construction method is supported by shafts (linear materials) such as posts and beams. The framed wood-frame wall construction is said to have high earthquake resistance, fire resistance, thermal insulation, airtightness, and soundproofing properties. --- Wood-frame wall construction - Wikipedia

The road is too narrow for heavy machinery to enter.

  • The building-to-land ratio will probably not be met.
  • So the streetscape will be preserved.

yellowtail stock

  • I wouldn’t get it even if I lived here for 100 years.

  • 500 out of 600 are out of area

  • licensed social networking organization

  • Licensed land association - Wikipedia

  • Neighborhood associations that can have property

  • ward headman

    • No district is established as an administrative division.
      • Administrative divisions are Owase City and Kuki Town.
    • ward leaders are elected
    • However:.
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    • Seems to contradict the following article.nishio.icon

      • Authorized land-based organizations shall not refuse to admit individuals with a domicile in their area without justifiable reason (Article 260-2, Paragraph 7).

      • Equal voting rights shall be granted to each member of the authorized land-based association. (Article 260-18)

        • Oh, I see, the Kuki union is not a licensed landowner’s association.
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  • A separate “neighborhood association” was created.

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      • Bri stock is passed on to children, so to speak, like an aristocrat that is hereditary.
      • Things are being done to create a House of Peers by the commoners separately from the House of Lords by the aristocracy.
      • In the past, profit sharing to shareholders was significant.
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        • Now it seems that the value is felt in the system of maintaining “township connections.”
          • I’m sure there’s a type of participation that would provide a “hometown connection” for people who are originally from the area, even if they’re doing a digital villager type thing.nishio.icon
      • Roads, schools, clinics, etc. were created by cooperatives. - noblesse oblige っぽさnishio.icon
        • I hear the clinic gets people from downtown Owase as well.

stone crossing

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  • Stone stairs instead of concrete or asphalt are maintained, including at intersections.

    • Properly crafted stone staircases span the entire length of the town.
      • [Not “field piling” but “sangi-zumi-zumi-zumi”.

      • Sumi-gi-zumi is a method of building up horizontal rectangular stones as corner stones used at the corners of a stone wall, so that the short sides and long sides alternate one by one.

      • In Edo Castle, stonewalls built with masonry can still be seen, especially in the corner corners of the castle tower, where magnificent masonry can be seen. --- how castle walls and stonewalls are stacked / home page

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    • The large space on the right is an elementary school (no longer in use).

  • side of well

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  • We used to talk here while washing vegetables. - content-free chat

  • Now it’s unused and leaves are piling up.

A story about a city hall employee doing a dubu saraisai.

  • Why City Hall Employees Can’t Refuse Chore Requests from Residents
    • Residents Leak to Opposition Aldermen
    • Opposition aldermen find places they can attack and look for rough edges to hit the ruling party.
    • As a result, more effort is lost than in “chores.”
      • So I’d rather take on chores.
  • Outsourcing government services to the private sector may serve as a defensive technique against this attack.nishio.icon

Nirakura

  • [The strange festival of Nirakura in Kuki, where people ink each other in pitch black - Mie Prefecture - Inabana. Com https://inabana.com/20211124/%E7%9C%9F%E3%81%A3%E9%BB%92%E3%80%85-%E5%A2%A8%E3%81%8B%E3%81%91%E5%90%88%E3%81%86%E4%B9%9D%E9%AC% BC%E3%81%AE%E5%A5%87%E7%A5%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9/]
  • Nirakura Festival - Owase Tourism and Products Association

  • First, on New Year’s Eve, December 31, a fire festival called “hikenyogyo” is held in Nirakura, a vacant lot surrounded by stone walls in the district.

  • Then, on the following day, New Year’s Day, a “nirakura” festival (kami no shuku, kakurikidori) is held early in the morning with a kagura on board to pray for a good catch and a “nirakura” festival in which charcoal mud is poured over each other while the “nirakura” is turned into a mud field.

  • Nirakura’s location is now in the center of Kuki Town, but in the past it was a surfing area and was inhabited by many large nina (sea urchins). It is said that fishermen sometimes put their feet up because of these nina, or perhaps they were sea urchins.

  • The main festivals held in Kuki Town are the Nirakura Festival and the Buri Festival. The Nirakura Matsuri is an annual festival of Kuki Shrine to pray for a good catch of fish, a good harvest, and safety, but it is also said to have been held in ancient times as an event of Okonai, the main deity of Shingonji Temple, and is considered important as showing the complex preliminary celebration events before the separation of Shintoism and Buddhism.

Yoshitaka Kuki - Wikipedia

  • In 1597, he passed the governorship to his son, Moritaka Kuki, and retired.

  • In 1600, when the Battle of Sekigahara occurred, Yoshitaka gave his support to the western forces, while Moritaka gave his support to the eastern forces. This was Yoshitaka’s strategy to keep the family name alive no matter who lost… Moritaka met with Tokugawa Ieyasu and pleaded for his father’s life, which was granted in consideration of Moritaka’s great achievements. He committed suicide at Dosenan in Wagu on October 12. He was 59 years old.

  • It was a barter for the right to collect taxes, apparently?

    • Houbetsu sen (according to the width of a ship’s sails) Nidabetsusen (also called “getabetsusen”) (according to the amount of cargo). It depends on the amount of cargo.) (Depends on the number of oars.), Roubetsu sen (Depends on the number of oars.), etc. [Toll tax (depending on the number of oars), etc. --- database “Memories of Ehime”｜Lifelong Learning Information Providing System This is the story of Setouchi. This is the story of Setouchi

    • After Hideyoshi’s death, Ieyasu refused to recognize the privilege of collecting toll tax in Ise Bay, and because of this grudge, he agreed to join the western forces in the Battle of Sekigahara. --- Yoshitaka Kuki

    • Yoshitaka was not on good terms with Ieyasu at this time… Inaba Michimichi, lord of Isedamaru and Iwade Castle, had paid a “tax” to transport lumber to Kyogi, passing through Yoshitaka’s territory, but the previous year (1599), Ieyasu had exempted Michimichi from this tax. --- Battle of Toba Castle - Yoshitaka Kuki’s Sekigahara -

Horizon Horizon, the magazine of the Amami Islands

People who are good at what they do will use public software.

  • But we haven’t been able to properly reward that contribution.
  • Public goods, overlooked because they are difficult to value (quantify)
  • → [shadow work

River building and scrum.

  • Because of its high complexity.
  • Because the whole thing can’t be pre-designed by humans.
  • Software and river building are the same.
    • Instead of designing in advance and following the plan, minimally try it out, see the results, and repeatedly make modifications.

open source (software, etc.)

Sawmills are a tool for making the most of the mountains

  • One of many weapons
  • Yamato Sato relay station

  • There are the most living creatures in the edge (be). Umibe, kawabe. There are experts on the sea, there are experts on the river, and there are no experts on the border. --- Masako Sakata’s concept of “Inner Nature

    • I associate it with this.nishio.icon

Come to the mountain and “open your mouth.”

  • The lifting of the prohibition on the use of common lands, such as mountains and seashores. Also, the day. --- goo Japanese dictionary

  • Stagnant situation
  • a river runs through it

When you come in contact with a word you don’t understand

  • I close the shutters.
  • Create their own language

lampoonist

We’ll give up if they think we’re weird

  • I hope you catch that as a normal uncle’s word.
  • Aiming for “That uncle has a good point.”

[We need people who can move around and bring new winds across the region, and we need people who can stay rooted in the region and keep the fire burning.

Selling lumber in a market economy

  • The market is changing.
    • Decrease in demand for [pillar materials

Land Algae Cultivation

bus

ESG

Scope 3

  • “Scope 1” - GHGs emitted directly by the company

  • “Scope 2” - GHGs indirectly emitted by the company

  • “Scope 3” - GHG emissions from raw material purchases and after sales

  • [Basic Sustainability Terms You Need to Know - What is “Scope 1, 2, and 3”, a measure of supply chain emissions｜Special Contents｜Energy and Resources Agency https://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/about/special/johoteikyo/ scope123.html]

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