What are required to sustain the Sakishima Islands? -Focusing on the interregional movements of people-

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590124
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka University of Human Sciences
• Principal Investigator: SUGIMOTO Kumiko 大阪人間科学大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (60340882)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HASHIMOTO Yasuko 大阪人間科学大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (20411720) ; MURAKAMI Masahiko 大阪人間科学大学, 人間科学部, 講師 (20516968) ; TOKIMOTO Yukari 大阪人間科学大学, 人間科学部, 講師 (50581055)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 離島社会 / 高齢者福祉 / U・Iターン / 地域移動 / 伝統文化 / 第一次産業

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By this research we can say that the farming and fishing industries are very important to sustain the Sakishima Islands. Since the return to Japan the parent generation supported their life by these industries and their children found their jobs in urban area of Okinawa main island or Japan. To the contrary, young people from urban area of Japan (I-turn) got their job in the service industries especially in tourism. Now the parents became much older and their children came back and began to succeed the farming and fishing industries. It means that these young people innovate these industries and succeed traditional culture of these islands.

Free Research Field

社会学