著者

寺田 麻佑

出版者

国際基督教大学

雑誌

社会科学ジャーナル = The Journal of Social Science (ISSN:04542134)

巻号頁・発行日

no.82, pp.47-71, 2016-09-30

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Privatization generally means the transfer of ownership or business fromthe governmental organization to the private company and there are manymethods to exercise ‘privatization’.We have to think carefully and deeply on the methods of privatizationalong with the risk and the ways of responsibility that the government andlocal governments should take. It is because methods of privatization are thekey to think of the ways, fields and frameworks of providing services by thecentral and local governments.This paper takes up airport privatization among many fields whereprivatization becomes an issue. After looking at several countries’ privatizationsituations of airports from a viewpoint of legal system (mainly Japan, the U.S.,the U.K. and Germany), it considers the nature of the system and ways ofpreferable controlling of the airports.Currently in 2016, privatization of airports is progressing in Japan. Forexample, privatization of Kansai International Airport and Itami Airportwas carried out and they are operated as privatized airports from this April.Plus, Sendai Airport has also been privatized early this year and the newcompany which was founded by the new management rights holder is goingto run the airport from this June. In addition to above, there are many otherconsiderations of privatization are currently done for other airports.Therefore, this paper looks at the methods and risk of privatization ofairports. In particular, what kind of approaches are adopted as methods ofprivatization of airports, what kind of legal risks the methods would holdare to be considered by comparing other countries’ methods and cases ofprivatization of airports. Then the indication for future consideration on thelegal methods and risks of privatization of airports of Japan and other countriesare compared and basis for future consideration will be examined.This paper first introduces the methods to privatize the airports andconsider the ways of privatization of airports. Then this paper will look at theactual cases of other countries where privatization of the airport actually wassuccessful and not successful. Finally, this paper considers and analyzes therisk of the governments how they should take the responsibility to guaranteethe outcome or service by thinking of the methods of the privatization ofairports which currently is also progressing in Japan on the comparison of thelegal systems of that of other countries.