The achievements of the special law to revitalize the former coal mining regions and the current socio-economic situations of people

Research Project

Project/Area Number	10680078
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Human geography
Research Institution	Shizuoka University
Principal Investigator	NISHIHARA Jun Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University, Professor, 情報学部, 教授 (30136626)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	FUJII Shiro Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University, Professor, 情報学部, 教授 (00145971)
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: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000) Fiscal Year 1999: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000) Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Keywords	coal mining region / install of factories / regional revalization / deprivation / 自治体アンケート / 産炭地域振興法 / 進出企業 / 地方自治体 / 炭鉱労働者 / 家族 / 石炭政策 / 縁辺地域 / 社会階層
Research Abstract	In this project, the achievements of the Japanese national and municipal governments' policies to revitalize the former coal mining regions have been investigated. Based on the analysis of the documents on population and industrial establishments, there could be found out that large regional differences occurred among the municipalities of former coal mining regions for last 35 years. In the regions which had largely depended on the coal mining industry, though the municipality made a great progress in the reorganization of industrial infrastructure helped by the national and prefectural governments, they have not recovered from their damages, from the viewpoint of local public finance and the socio-economic situations of people. According to the authors postal questionnaire survey and interview researches to the officials of those municipalities, the special factors which attributed to the characteristics of coal mining regions and coal miners interfered their revitalization. The jobs which were newly created through the installing of factories are low waged. Pretty large percentage of installed factories quitted from the former coal mining regions in several years. However, other former coal mining municipalities have recovered from their influences of shut down of mines almost as same as other municipalities.