The purpose is to clarify the building process of coal mining settlements by comparing 2 mines. As a result, hills and damp grounds and so on that were low yield, were selected as the site, because there had been a rice-producing district in Chikuho region. The both areas were self-supporting planed, and insides had minimum establishments of life for them. Each supply of houses for coal miners from 1919 (after the world war I) to 1930 (before the Manchurian Incident) was quite different in each personnel management system and a operating policy. In the period under control from 1931 to 1949 (the end of the world war II), the time selected by each company effected each form of settlement. The coal mining settlements were related to the business strategy of each company, deeply.
