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Residents are familiar with the serious problem of dysfunction in local governments, whose control should actually be extended, as was the case with the Toyama city assembly members’ diversion of political activity funds and the land-building of the Toyosu market. Conflicts involving disputes with local governments are also intensifying, such as lawsuits between Okinawa prefecture and the central government regarding the relocation of the Futenma base to Henoko and conflicts among residents with regard to nursery locations in various areas.
 
Traditionally, in public law, however, the study of legal problems related to local autonomy would be placed in a corner. In constitutional law, whether human rights theory or governance theory, the legislative, judicial, and administrative actions of the country are the targets of consideration; administrative law, especially since the beginning of the twenty-first century, focuses on handling technical problems in administrative lawsuits.
 
Amidst these circumstances, I have been promoting legal consideration of local autonomy and decentralization founded on basic theory since I first began working as a researcher. As a culmination of my research, I collected papers I had written between 1994 and 2010, reflected on trends in practice and theory since then, and published this book aiming for a moderate systematization.
 
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