ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the system of public participation in Narashino City, Chiba Prefecture. In Narashino it was local government rather than the citizens which took the first initiative, by organizing a territorial system for participation based on the area approach, in which public officials were allocated to each community as defined by the local government itself. The local government also stimulated the formation of a voluntary citizen's organization linked to its own territorial system, in an attempt to facilitate citizen-centered control of the life space. The total number of demands made by citizens on local government each year through the system of participation, which reflects the reality of actual participation in the budget planning process. The documentation of a conference of citizen representatives on the process of territorialization, which was held on the initiative of the local government, has been analyzed using a type of canonical correlation analysis.
