To put into practice this ideal of caring for the elderly, Shikatsu-once voted Japan's best town-has allocated close to 1.5 % of its annual budget to the museum and library, and an astonishing amount of human and physical resources have been put into them.
不過，為了落實照顧年長者的理想，曾入選日本全國優良町村的師勝町，每年的町預算有將近百分之一・五就花在資料館和圖書館上，投入的人力物力不可不謂驚人。