2025 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 1-8
The collaboration between forestry sector and welfare service for persons with disabilities aims to simultaneously solve the problems of securing forestry labor and employment opportunities for people with disabilities. This collaboration has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, this topic has not been researched or progressed. This study examines a case study clarifies the process of the establishing such a collaboration and the factors contributing to its continuation after surveying the status of forestry and social welfare collaboration in Japan. It employed face-to-face interviews with the staff of the Miyagawa forestry association and welfare facility (Ziguso Kobo) in October 2023. Subsequent interviews were conducted with the same staff and workers in the local governments via email. The survey results indicated that matching the needs of the forestry association and the welfare facility and the absence of opposition contributed to the process of establishing the collaboration, and that external financial assistance was not needed. The reason for the continuation of the collaboration was that the collaboration continued to be significant for both the forestry association and the welfare facility despite changes in the significance of the cooperation. The presence or absence of subsidies did not affect the collaboration.
