2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Rural sociology for making sustainable community in mountainside villages in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
18530405
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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 |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Hosei University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKASUJI Naoya Hosei University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor (00262064)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | Mountainside villages / Rural Sociology / Sustainable Community |
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| Research Abstract |
During two years, I researched local governments of Japan especially mountainside and central of peripheral regions, such as Hachimantai city, Kuzumaki town, Morioka city and Hanamaki city in I wate prefecture, Nichinan town, Hino town and Yonago city in Tottori, Hitoyoshi city, Asagiri town, and Yunomae town in Kumamoto, Aya town and Miyakonojo city in Miyazaki. I made many interviews to key officers of local governments and assemblies. Also I made interviews to local group leaders and followers.
As a result, I propose that local government in mountainside can promote small local Communities by supporting human and fiscal resources. Those communities must be constructed by not legal definition but dwellers' collective pride, such as the love for hometown or nature environment.
But the dwellers in mountainside are now not traditional villagers. They have individual characters and somehow utilitarian. So, for making sustainable community, we have to appreciate their characters and apply them, such as community business.
Local cities that located at the center of villages can acquire their energy from sustainable development of industries, such as agriculture connected with sightseeing, named "green tourism" in villages. So, those cities and villages must connect and encourage each other.
For the future, I will research social consciousness of villagers by metrical approach, because of understanding leader follower relationship of them. And I want to recognize the historical process of politics and policy making of rural regions of contemporary Japan
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