2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study of the actual situation of inhabitant and the function of hamletsin marginal hamlets

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21830087
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Iwate Prefectural University
Principal Investigator	SHOJI Chieko 岩手県立大学, 社会福祉学部, 講師 (30549986)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2010
Keywords	限界集落 / 集落機能 / 生活補完
Research Abstract	In Japan today, it is said that a number of rural communities face a difficult problem, suffer from depopulation."Marginal hamlets", over half of the population of the hamlet is made up of the elderly people below the age of 65, increase in number owing to depression of agriculture and forestry. Such places suffer from various social and livelihood problems, many of which are related to farming, making the continued existence of these hamlets questionable. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the arguments about "Marginal hamlets" and research the actual situation of inhabitant and the function of hamlets in marginal hamlets.

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