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Yokohama City's special city system "Special City"
Yokohama City aims to legislation of a special city to create "options for Mirai"!
Last Updated May 20, 2024
- ！NEW！ The logo mark of "Yokohama Special City" has been newly born!
- What is the special city of Yokohama?
- Why do you need a special city?
- How will it change when it comes to a special city?
- How do I realize a special city system?
- For those who want to know "Yokohama Special City" in detail
- Yokohama Special City University Rules / Related Documents / Related Links
- Related information (events, information dissemination, etc.)
！NEW！ The logo mark of "Yokohama Special City" has been newly born!
We have newly created the Yokohama Special City Logo Mark to have many citizens know about "Special City".
It will be widely used for future public relations and momentum cultivation initiatives, and can be used by everyone.
By all means, please use it widely and ask for your cooperation in the public relations and momentum cultivation of the "Special City" that Yokohama City aims for!
For more information, look here.
▶▶▶ "Yokohama Special City" Public Relations Tool
What is the special city of Yokohama?
Special city is system that can take charge of all local office work in the city area and can completely eliminate double administration.
As a result, it is possible to improve administrative services and provide more detailed services that meet your needs.
Why do you need a special city?
The current “designated city system” has issues such as “double administration of the city and prefecture” and “insufficient tax measures”.
Therefore, it is an insufficient system to efficiently and effectively solve issues unique to large cities and to enhance administrative services.
In addition, the effects of population decline and declining birthrate and aging population are expected to become noticeable in the future, and reviewing the system is an urgent issue.
How will it change when it comes to a special city?
When it becomes a special city, waste by double administration of city and prefecture is eliminated.
Therefore, "improvement of convenience of citizen's all of you including unification of window" or "problem solution based on the local situation" and will be able to plan improvement of administrative service .
How do I realize a special city system?
It is necessary to legislation of "special city" so that citizens can select the shape of a city suitable for Yokohama City.
In order to realize the legalization of a special city, it is necessary to inform the citizens of the need for a special city and to work with the national and parliament, so it is necessary to work with the national and political parties.
For those who want to know "Yokohama Special City" in detail
Booklet and leaflet
Public information booklet "Yokohama Special City" (revised in December 2023) (PDF: 4,787KB)
Public information leaflet (A4 version) (created in February 2018) (PDF: 6,825KB)
Public information leaflet (vertical length version) (created in October 2018) (PDF: 5,812KB)
Video ※"Special city" is the common name of "Special Autonomous City".
“Yokohama Special Autonomous City: The Form of a City Appropriate for Yokohama” (produced in October 2021)
4-minute version [Summary Version] "Yokohama Special Self-Government City-Shape of a City Appropriate for Yokohama-" (produced in October 2021)
Yokohama Special City University Rules / Related Documents / Related Links
Yokohama Special City University Rules
We revised "Yokohama special city university rope" which became guideline of way of thinking of "special city" that Yokohama-shi aims at. In the conventional general rules that summarize the necessity of the special municipal system and the outline of the system, the city's approach to the concerns presented by Kanagawa Prefecture is newly specified.
Yokohama Special City University Rules (Overall version) (PDF: 14,547KB)
Cover and Table of Contents (PDF: 503KB)
Chapter 1 Purpose of General Rules Formulation (PDF: 513KB)
Chapter 2 Initiatives and Trends on Metropolitan System Reforms (PDF: 532KB)
Chapter 3 Background and necessity of special city system (PDF: 4,337KB)
Chapter 4 Special City System (PDF: 3,176KB) aimed at by Yokohama City
Process for Chapter 5 Yokohama Special City System Establishment (PDF: 3,339KB)
Reference (PDF: 5,733KB)
| Year | Contents |
|---|---|
| 2010 (Heisei 22) | Formulation of basic concept for the creation of a new metropolis system <basic direction> |
| 2012 (Heisei 24) | Yokohama Special Self-Government City University draft (main point) Formulation |
| 2013 (Heisei 25) | Yokohama Special Self-Government City University Rules |
| 2021 (Reiwa 3) | Yokohama Special Self-Governing City University Rules |
| 2022 (Reiwa 4) | Yokohama Special City University Rules |
The necessity of legislation of a "special city" from the perspective of residents: a new form of self-government realized from Kanagawa-(announced in July 2022)
Necessity of legislation of "special city" from viewpoint of inhabitants (PDF: 3,036KB)
[Reference] Collection of materials (PDF: 8,093KB)
Flyer poster of Designated City Mayors' Association
Designated City Mayor's Association Flyer
Poster of Designated City Mayors' Association
Designated City Mayor's Association Flyer (PDF: 1,060KB)
Designated City Mayors' Association Poster (PDF: 389KB)
Related links
| Name | Overview |
|---|---|
| Local System Research Committee (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) (outside site) | Meeting materials of the Local System Research Committee are posted. ※Local System Research Committee: An affiliated organization established in the Cabinet Office to investigate and deliberate important matters concerning the local system in response to the Prime Minister's consultation. |
| Decentralization Reform (Cabinet Office) (outside site) | It is published about decentralization reform. ※Decentralization reform: In order to make it easier for each region to address local issues with their own judgment and responsibility, efforts to change the administration close to the residents so that local governments close to the residents can take on their own judgment and responsibility. |
| Designated City Mayors' Association (outside site) | Approach of Designated City Mayors' Association is published. |
| Kawasaki City (outside site) | Approach of special self-government city of Kawasaki-shi is published. The three designated cities in Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Sagamihara, which share issues as designated cities, are working together to establish a "special city" system. |
| Sagamihara City (outside site) | Approach of special self-government city of Sagamihara-shi is published. The three designated cities in Yokohama, Kawasaki, and Sagamihara, which share issues as designated cities, are working together to establish a "special city" system. |
Related information (events, information dissemination, etc.)
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Public relations events (symposiums, panel exhibitions, etc.)
■Information Dissemination
X (former Twitter) (Yokohama City Large Urban System Promotion Headquarters Office) (outside site)
YouTube (Yokohama City Large Urban System Channel) (outside site)
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