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A Case Study of Citizen's Ombudsman Movements in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10610157
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionHirosaki University

Principal Investigator

OTSUBO Shoichi  Hirosaki University, Pedagogy, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (80194215)

Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2000
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
KeywordsCitizen's Ombudsman / free access to information / inhabitants' movement
Research Abstract

I enforced a questionnaire survey for every regional representsatives who join the National Citizens' Ombudsman Conference, as I would like to grasp the image of the biginning stage of this movements in Japan entirely. As a result, the movements nationally done was able to be distributed into three types. One : Group of the small number elite. Two : Group that does to enlarge a scale. Three : Systematization unfinished group. As attorneys and specialists have become the center for these movements, a tendency called "democracy to delegate an ombudsman" was seen at all types. I pointed out that the above-mentioned becomes the central task of the beginning ombudsman movements in Japan.
Whether ombudsman movements itself think about conquest of this task anyhow or not I researched on focus to prove for this point. One is an example of Aomori Prefecture. An ombudsman activity was requested, while a regional task called a nuclear fuel cycle facilities construction problems clearly appears there. Other is an example of Sendai City. Sendai Citizen Ombudsman does to raise a conventional resident autonomous quality by an ombudsman activity. I comparatively examined a systematization of 2 regional movements. I hold an aforementioned problem with both also and participants of the movements are split for "passive type" and "positiveness type" I proved that there is a difference in a purpose at participants each regional activity for the background. A learning to derive their positiveness while recognizing a disparity of a claim of participants by is important. Then we can conclude an evaluation that it is a newer object compared with a conventional one Simultaneously I pointed out by an ombudsman movements in Japan that "participation type learning" is necessary to start making "society where each citizen participates".

Report

(4 results)
  • 2000 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All Other

All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 大坪正一: "住民運動論に関する一考察"社会学年報. 第28号. 31-52 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 大坪正一,櫻井常矢: "市民オンブズマン運動における社会教育の諸問題"弘前大学教育学部紀要. No.84. 81-96 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 新妻二男,内田司,大坪正一 他: "都市・農村関係の地域社会論"創風社. 161 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SHOICHI OTSUBO: "A Study of Arguments of Inhabitants' Movement : Case Study in Rokkasyo Village"THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE TOHOKU SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. No.28. 31-52 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] SHOICHI OTSUBO: "Problems of Adult Education in the Primary Stage of Citizen's Ombudsman Movements"Bulletin of the Fuculty of Education Hirosaki University. No84. 81-96 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 大坪正一,櫻井常矢: "市民オンブズマン運動における社会教育の諸問題"弘前大学教育学部紀要. No.84. 81-96 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 新妻二男,内田司,大坪正一 他: "都市・農村関係の地域社会論"創風社. 161 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 大坪正一: "住民運動に関する一考察"社会学年報. 第28号. 31-52 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1998-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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