Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to realize the general types of rural areas, marked by the differences in actual conditions of industries, farms and villages, and their mutuality. Analyses are done in following order. 1) Considering the method of area setting suitable for the purpose. 2) Setting areas temporarily as forty-one local city commuting areas in the eastern part of Japan, and selecting the objects finally after an examination on the composition of industries in the local cities. 3) Classifying the areas to some types by the principal component analysis on the barometers about industries, farms and villages, and population of each area. 4) Analyzing the state of relations between industries and rural regions in each type of area by the case studies on the typical ones. Finally, the general patterns of the types are clarified as follows : i) Low or middle grade industrialized area ; The progress of industrialization is relatively behind, and the relations between industries and rural labor forces are slight. ii) Rural industries fastened area; Industrial employments of farming families are numerous, though the density of industries is not very high. Large part of industries are intensive in labor, and scattered about the area. There are almost no rapid changes in agriculture. iii) Highly industrialized area ; Large concentration of the heavy industry with high productivity is in urban district. Farmhouses and agricultural lands are reducing rapidly. There are plural patterns in the relations between industries and rural regions in industrialized areas. The variety is mainly caused by the difference of the quality of industries.
