Yubari-city

Recetly the news about Yubari-city gathered big attention. Yubari-city was flowrished around 1940-1970 because of its coal. Once there were more than 100,000 people in the city but closing of mines led the city to small and less income. People thought the withering city was big issue; consequently they tried to change their main works from mining to tourism and gather people again. However this new tourism didn't go well at all. The attractions which they founded are less attractive but municipal government has continued to found new attractions. And above all, Yubari is very cold so many attractions are not available during winter, almost half of year. Moreover, municipal government hid the facts that their new tourism went not well and made a great deal of debt... When municipal government revealed the facts, the amount of their debt was reached 36,000,000,000 yen. 360 oku-yen!!! The government was bankropted. The govenment decided to cut the public service costs and rise taxes in order to pay the debt back people in 20 years. It means people in Yubari have to live under the lowest living standard in 20 years from now. Public facilities will be close, municipal nursing home will be abolished, municipal hospital will be reduced in scale... This increasing in burdens is severe problem especially for Yubari, which holds 40% of population as elderly people whose ages are more than 65. Also tax for waste treatment and edcational expenditure will increase. Therefore a family including elder grandparents and young grandchildren will face serious finacial crisis. In such oppressed city, the population would decrease to 6000, according to economists. I felt really sorry for people in Yubari. I don't think that all the responsibility belong to the municipal govenment, but the govenment must have consider whether their tourism was going well or not, and it has decieved people; the sin is heavy. Are there any idea to help Yubari-city? Also I would like to tell you guys one fact that Japanese government has far more amount of debt to us. So someday Japanese govenment might be bankropted!?!? Thak you for reading such long article..