Abstract
The issues of quantity and quality have been attracting more attention in impoving community facilties, especially educational facilties. In Japan, community centers called kominkan are playing an important role as centers of social and life-long learning, serving citizens of all ages from infants to the aged. In search of guidelines in planning kominkan, which has been increasing by 400 every year, this study analizes the functions of kominkan. Data on the functions of kominkan were collected fromproposals made by administrative bodies in establishing kominkan. Some patterns of the framework and components of kominkan were derived from such data. As the ehronological analysis were mede of such patterns and the historical development of Kominkan was surveyed, it has been found out there are two types of development : social/educational administration-oriented and community people-oriented development.
