On December 26, 2024 (Thursday), a joint press conference was held at the large conference room on the 5th floor of the west wing of the main building of Shimonoseki City Hall, Yamaguchi Economic Research Institute, Yamaguchi Financial Group, Inc., Shimonoseki City and Okayama University regarding the promotion of joint research on population issues through industry-government-academia-government collaboration.

　At the press conference, Vice President Suga gave an overview of the research results related to demographics and child-rearing in FY2023, and future joint research efforts.

　President, Korea, President of Yamaguchi Economic Research Institute Nishimura, Executive Officer of Yamaguchi Financial Group, Inc. (General Manager of Growth Strategy Business Division), and Mayor Maeda, Shimonoseki-shi.

　President talked about the two significances of this joint research: the challenge of population decline, which is a global issue in developed countries, industry, government, and academia, and money together, and the fact that the university became a comprehensive university has made it possible to take on interdisciplinary challenges using knowledge that could not be achieved at a single university.

　In the future, in order to solve the problem of population decline, declining birthrate and aging population in Shimonoseki City, we will take an approach to solving the issues through cooperation between industry, government, and academia, and through research, it will be effective to solve regional issues in Shimonoseki City. We aim to develop it into the implementation of certain initiatives. In the long term, we would like to take on the challenge of becoming a global research from research based on the characteristics of Shimonoseki City.

[Publishing date: 2024.12.27]

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