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The objective of this study is to find the characteristics and problems of New Public Management(NPM) adopting in Japanese local governments. We formulated an analysis model and interviewed officials who are in charge of performance management affairs in Chiba-Ken, cities of Chiba and Ichigawa. Following are the results: Ichigawa was most positive government in adopting new management system in the three. They adopted Balanced Scorecard(BSC) to cope with the difficulties of city income recession, but have not abolished the existing performance management system(administrative affairs evaluating system). They have used BSC as a complementary tool and want to introduce it gradually after sufficient experiments. The City of Chiba was positive in adopting a new management system also. They have adopted recently "administrative affairs evaluating system" which was considered as ineffective management system. But they have tried to reform various kinds of administrative systems. However Chiba-Ken, the upper tier government was not so positive in adopting a new management system. they only have adopted the administrative affairs evaluating system recently.