The gap between plan and reality in Special Measures for Development of Okinawa --- Consensus building over redevelopment of the closed US military base sites and publicness ---

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380719
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka University of Economics
• Principal Investigator: NAMBA Takashi 大阪経済大学, 情報社会学部, 教授 (00321018)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SUGIMOTO Kumiko 大阪人間科学大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (60340882) ; FUJITANI Tadaaki 相愛大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (30368378) ; OCHI Ikuno 立教大学, 観光学部, 助教 (10624215)
• Research Collaborator: AOKI Yasuhiro 元佛教大学, 社会学部, 教授 ; YAMAMOTO Soyo 公益社団法人奈良まちづくりセンター, 理事、同志社大学・社会学部, 嘱託講師 ; MINAMI Yuichiro 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 非常勤講師 ; EISAWA Naoko 岸和田市役所, 企画調整部・企画調整課、関西大学, 非常勤講師 ; MAKINO Yoshiko 佛教大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 博士後期課程 ; SUGIMOTO Takashi 岡山大学, 大学院社会文化科学研究科, 博士前期課程
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 沖縄振興 / 米軍基地・自衛隊基地 / 軍用地 / 郷友会 / 再開発 / 跡地利用 / 公共性 / 公共事業

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project considers redevelopment of the closed US military base sites which have not been focused on in any previous researches. Attention to the US military base sites has been paid as a measure of changing the dependency structures in Okinawa. The Okinawa local government’s measures have been assumed to solve the compensative promotion situations. However, Okinawa may be overly developed; and these sites may exceed the overdevelopment. Therefore, these measures would accelerate the overdevelopment depending on how to deal with it.
2012 was a turning point of the exploitation. Redevelopment of the base sites has additionally linked policy issues of bases and development of the region as compensation for the independence of the returned lands from the military bases. This policy has the potential to accelerate the overdevelopment. The main statement deals with the reality of ongoing redevelopment of the base sites and the role of the Okinawa local governments and municipalities.

Free Research Field

社会学