Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000) by Committee on the History of Japan’s Trade and Industry Policy RIETI

Author:Committee on the History of Japan’s Trade and Industry Policy RIETI
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811519871
Publisher: Springer Singapore

3.3.4 Promotion of Projects for the Development of New Housing

As a successor to the 1975 “House 55 Plan,” which had been a joint project of the Ministry of Construction and MITI for high-quality, low-priced industrialized housing, MITI independently launched the New Housing Development Project in 1979 (Matsushima 2012, p. 347). This plan, which covered seven years from FY 1979 to FY 1985, consisted of developing (1) systems technologies for the care of the elderly and physically handicapped, (2) systems technologies for variable living spaces, (3) systems technologies for the utilization of basements, (4) systems technologies for natural energy-based housing, and (5) technologies for improving the durability of building materials for homes. The New Housing Development Committee was set up as a private advisory body of the Director of Consumer Industries Bureau and deliberated on possible directions of development. Fourteen groups, composed of 56 companies, participated in the development. Significant results were seen in (1)–(4) of the above plans. In addition, MITI established a third project, the New Materials and Equipment System Development Project for Apartment Houses (the “21st Century Condominium Plan”) in FY 1984.

The Cabinet Decision on the Fourth Comprehensive National Development Plan in June 1987 aimed for a deconcentration of people and institutions in Tokyo and a shift to decentralized multipolar land use. The Industrial Council on Housing and the Urban Industry Committee then conducted a new review. According to the interim report presented in May 1988, a supply of housing was needed that would be appropriate for the era’s diversification of values and individualization of lifestyles, and that would meet the need for further cost reduction. MITI thereupon launched the New Industrialized Housing Industry Technology and Systems Development Project, its fourth solo project. With a seven-year plan beginning in FY 1989, it focused on (1) developing designs for living spaces and performance simulation systems, (2) developing high-performance building materials, housing equipment, and factory production technology, and (3) developing comprehensive energy-use systems for residential use. The first of these targeted the development of methods and systems capable of predicting and making calculations for moist heat, air, sound, light, and other environmental and housing functions (Fig. 6).

Fig. 6History of housing technology development projects.

Source Study Group on the Housing Industry of the Future [Kongo no Jyutaku Sangyo no Arikata ni Kansuru Kenkyukai] 2008. New Paradigms for the Housing Industry (Report for METI)

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