Today in Japan, there are more than two thousand public performing arts facilities, funded and supported by nearly all levels of local government.  Most of these performing arts facilities have been built with funding exclusively from local governments for the purpose of providing the public with a wide range of art-related entertainment events.  In addition, Japanese local governments also have been financially supporting entertainment events as well as the maintenance and management of the facilities.  Over the years, government support, especially of those performing arts facilities in rural areas, has been essential, since it is nearly impossible to provide the public with high quality entertainment without such help.Recently, however, the allocation of government funds to performing arts facilities has been seriously questioned.  This was triggered by the sharp decrease in tax revenue caused by the country’s weak economy.  Many local governments have been facing large deficits for some time, raising their debts to an enormously high level.  Up until now, the performance of the performing arts facilities has been measured by comparing the expenditure of the facilities to the number of people attending their events.  The amount of tax payersﾕ money allocated for the support of performing arts facilities is relatively large.  On the other hand, the facilities only manage to attract relatively few people to their events.  Therefore, performing arts facilities are often regarded as inefficient spenders of tax payer’s money, bringing their very existence into question.  However, performing arts facilities cannot be evaluated solely through a simple comparison of numbers because those numbers do not reflect every aspect of the roles that performing arts facilities play.  For example, such comparisons usually fail to take into account the quality of the events, which may raise the level of the public’s cultural awareness.  Thus, it is necessary to develop a new means of accurately evaluating the performance of performing arts facilities.