| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The City Yonezawa in Yamagata Prefecture has been developing as a single industry community of textile management. Since the oil crisis during 1970's, Yonezawa went through its historical change from a textile industrial city to high-tech on of electric industry. Factors of the prominent switchov er can be assumed from such aspects as cultural and socio-economic background.
Cultural factors involve cleverness with hand-working of people in Yonezawa and educational tradition of professional work of textile job. As socio-economic backgrounds of its radical change, we can refer to some specific conditions during the Second World War, when two big electric firms in Tokyo was evacuated in Yonezawa City. After the World War, small subcontract factories has been brought up around these big factories. Once Yonezawa was rather a closed community because of its traditional production system, but in recent years, various open networkings among generations, jobs, technologist, managers, associations, have grown by transforming industrial structure, and accepting many strangers who lots, of strangers who engage in high-tech industries
In spite of influence of high-tech innovations, traditional quality of work in textile, on one hand, has been maintained by some local craftsmen, but on the other, computer-based systems have been introduced in some textile firms by new generations of local managers. Thus the case of Yo nezawa City could be seen as one of the symbolic patterns of social change in recent Japan.
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