The military bases and local communities in Okinawa prefecture

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285161
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Bukkyo University
• Principal Investigator: TAKIMOTO Yoshifumi 佛教大学, 社会学部, 教授 (00329989)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TAMURA Masao 椙山女学園大学, 人間関係学部, 教授 (40247606) ; SUGIMOTO Kumiko 大阪人間科学大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (60340882) ; HIRAI Jun 吉備国際大学, 地域創成農学部, 准教授 (60435039) ; YMAMOTO Soyo 同志社大学, 社会学部, 嘱託講師 (60438273) ; FUJITANI Tadaaki 相愛大学, 人文学部, 教授 (30368378)
• Research Collaborator: EIZAWA Naoko 関西大学, 非常勤講師 ; MAKINO Yoshiko 佛教大学, 大学院 ; KONDO Yasuhiro 関西外国語大学, 非常勤講師 ; MINAMI Yuichiro 関西学院大学, Zero Carbon Society研究センター, 客員研究員 ; TAKEDA Yuka 同志社大学, 社会学部, 嘱託講師 ; AOKI Yasuhiro 元佛教大学, 社会学部, 元教授
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 地域自治組織 / 軍用地料 / 軍事基地

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Through the research on neighborhood associations, some of which are given huge amount of rent money from Japanese government because of their landownership, we have found some organizational characteristics of villages as follows,
First, all the names of villages in Okinawa have never been changed over more than one hundred years. They have maintained the same names since Meiji Restoration in 1868. Secondly, the village people have established different kind of neighborhood associations called “kyo-yu-kai”, sort of Heimat, which have barred new comers from being members, therefor excluded from getting benefits of military rent money. And lastly, there are strong affinity between some municipalities and neighborhood associations.

Free Research Field

社会調査