A Study on the Development of Cultural Policy and 'Cultural Economic Strategy' in Japan

The Japanese Government announced the "Cultural Economic Strategy" at the end of 2017 and presented a frame of government cultural policy that approaches culture from an economic perspective.This study analyzes Japan's attempts from the perspective of cultural policy development and comparative cultural policy.In order to compare the cultural policy with historical development, the development of cultural policy through the previous research set the standards and framework for visual comparison.This study analyzed the significance and suggestions of "economic strategy."Based on such comparison, we recognized the concept and importance of culture and analyzed the area of cultural policy, the subject of cultural policy, and the viewpoint of cultural policy.Cultural arts and life culture, cultural democracy, cultural industry and cultural economy, national and international areas as cultural policy, cultural welfare and multi-culture, market and government (central and local government) analysis dimension was set and implication was derived using these standards.