2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Case Study of Citizen's Ombudsman Movements in Japan
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10610157
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | Hirosaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
OTSUBO Shoichi Hirosaki University, Pedagogy, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (80194215)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | Citizen's Ombudsman / free access to information / inhabitants' movement |
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| 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".
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