The trends of socio-economic changes in depopulated regions indicated in statistics and the impacts of merger of municipalities

• Project/Area Number: 20520684
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: TSUTSUMI Kenji Osaka University, 大学院・文学研究科, 教授 (20188593)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
• Keywords: 人口減少地域 / 地域統計 / 社会経済変動 / 市町村合併 / 人文地理学

Research Abstract

In this study, the representative (Tsutsumi) worked on building databases consisting of regional statistics and statistics on the municipal mergers of depopulated regions. As a result of an analysis of socio-economic changes concerning to these regions, the past situation that we could easily recognize the difference between patterns in the East Japan and the West Japan, has been changing into that there are not so clear differences between them, but the situation in Shikoku district has become severer. And also it became clear that there are serious conditions of small mountainous regions after the merger, and that we must take care of treatment of small area statistics.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Social Capital in Rural Studies in Japan : An Examination of Actual Forms of Social Capital Especially in Rural Japan(Chapter 10), MARG(Marginal Areas Research Group, Graduate School of Urban Management, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan) (2011)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Journal Title: Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas(Kobayashi K., Westlund, L. and Jeong Hayeong (eds)) Vol.6 Pages: 129-139
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Social Capital in Rural Studies in Japan : An Examination of Actual Forms of Social Capital Especially in Rural Japan (2011)
  • Author(s): Kenji TSUTSUMI
  • Journal Title: Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas Volume: 6 Pages: 129-139
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Settlement Activities and Social Capital of Depopulated Rural Areas in Japan(Chapter 7), MARG(Marginal Areas Research Group, Graduate School of Urban Management, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan), supported by Swedish Board of Agriculture (Jordbruk-sverket), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), and RUREG (Research Unit for Rural Entrepreneurship and Growth) of Jonkoping International Business School of Jonkoping University, Sweden, and distributed by RUREG. (2010)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Journal Title: Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas(Westlund H. and Kobayashi, K. (eds.)) Vol.5 Pages: 93-106
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Settlement Activities and Social Capital of Depopulated Rural Areas in Japan (2010)
  • Author(s): Kenji TSUTSUMI
  • Journal Title: Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas Volume: 5 Pages: 93-106
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Social Ties and "Social Capital" in Areas under Shrinking and Marginalization process in Japan(Chapter 3), MARG(Marginal Areas Research Group, Graduate School of Urban Management, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan). (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Journal Title: Kobayashi K., Tamura, T., Westlund, L. and Jeong Hayeong (eds)."Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas Vol.4 Pages: 19-29
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Social Ties and "Social Capital" in Areas under Shrinking and Marginalization process in Japan (2009)
  • Author(s): TSUTSUMI, Kenji
  • Journal Title: Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas 4 Pages: 19-29
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Drastic Depopulation, Town Renovation and Social Capital on a Coal Mining Island(Chapter 4), CERUM(Center for Regional Science, Umea University, Umea, Sweden). (2008)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Journal Title: Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas(Kobayashi, K., Westin, L. and Westlund, L. (eds).) Vol.3 Pages: 47-59
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Interscale and Interlevel Problems of Research on Social Capital in Rural Japan (2010)
  • Author(s): Kenji TSUTSUMI
  • Organizer: The 7th Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Swedish and Japanese Countryside, with a conference of the 50^<th> years anniversary of European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
  • Place of Presentation: Jonkoping University, Jonkoping, Sweden
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-20
• [Presentation] Interscale and Interlevel Problems of Research on Social Capital in Rural Japan (2010)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Organizer: The 7th Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Swedish and Japanese Countryside, with a conference of the 50th years anniversary of European Regional Science Association (ERSA) "Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy"
  • Place of Presentation: Jonkoping University, Jonkoping, Sweden
• [Presentation] Social Capital in Rural Studies in Japan : An Examination of Actual Forms of Social Capital (2009)
  • Author(s): TSUTSUMI, Kenji
  • Organizer: The 6th Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Japanese and Swedish Countryside
  • Place of Presentation: 大浜記念館 (石垣島)
  • Year and Date: 2009-07-02
• [Presentation] Social Capital in Rural Studies in Japan: An Examination of Actual Forms of Social Capital (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Organizer: The 6th Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Japanese and Swedish Countryside.
  • Place of Presentation: Ohama Nobumoto Memorial Hall, Ishigaki, Japan
• [Presentation] Over Neoliberal Social Capitalism: Social Capital and Revitalization of Depopulated Mountainous Areas in Japan (2008)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Organizer: The 5th East Asia Regional Conference in Alternative Geographies(EARCAG).
  • Place of Presentation: Seoul, South Korea
• [Presentation] Sustainable Policy for Settlement Life and Socio-economic Trends of Depopulation in Rural Japan (2008)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi, K.
  • Organizer: The 5th Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Japanese and Swedish Countryside.
  • Place of Presentation: Sodra Vatterbygdens Folkogskola, Jonkoping, Sweden
• [Presentation] Sustainable Policy for Settlement Life and Socio-economic Trends of Depopulat ion in Rural Japan (2008)
  • Author(s): TSUTSUMI, Kenji
  • Organizer: Workshop on SC and Development Trends in the Japanese and Swedi sh Countryside
  • Place of Presentation: Sadra Vatterbygdens Folkogskola, Jonkoping
• [Book] 山村政策の展開と山村の変容(「山間地域集落の生活機能とソーシャル\キャピタル」)(藤田佳久編著)第9章 (2011)
  • Author(s): 堤研二
  • Publisher: 原書房
• [Book] 人口減少・高齢化と生活環境:山間地域とソーシャル・キャピタルの事例に学ぶ (2011)
  • Author(s): 堤研二
  • Publisher: 九州大学出版会
• [Book] 人口減少・高齢化と生活環境-山間地域とソーシャル・キャピタルの事例に学ぶ- (2011)
  • Author(s): 堤研二
  • Publisher: 九州大学出版会
• [Book] Senri New Town,"(Ch.6) in Shrinking Cities : Complete Works 3 Japan(Philipp Oswalt (ed.)) (2008)
  • Author(s): 堤研二
  • Publisher: Project Office Philipp Oswalt (Berlin, Germany)
• [Book] Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas Vol. 3 (このうちChapter 4を執筆) (2008)
  • Author(s): Kobavashi, K., Westin, L., Westlund, L. (eds)
  • Publisher: CERUM(Center for Regional Science, Umea University)
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