On the Relationality Assets and Gift-and-Circulation Model in Community Problem

Abstract

Japan is a state-of-the-art aging society of the world from the viewpoint of average life expectancy, the number of elderly people, and the speed of aging. And accompanied by a declining population, the society in Japan is facing a turning point. In Japanese society, the connection of local communities has played a very important role. However, the concentration of the population in the urban area that began in the high economic growth period has changed to the concentration in the Tokyo metropolitan area in the 2000s, and as the declining birthrate and aging population advances, regional relationships have been diluted there. In this paper, we introduce the relational assets and Gift-and-Circulation model, which are key concepts of our approach to constructing a methodology as a solution to the above problem. And from a macro-perspective, how relational assets works will be examined.