抄録
In the early 1980's. three different types of Japanese foresty policies were proposed by the government and a university researcher. Those were (1) policy for encouraging forestry practiced by small-scale farmers, (2) policy for organizing modern forest cooperatives making good use of machinery and full-time forest labor force, and (3) policy for forming market-oriented forestry area.
Out of these three proposed policies, the Japanese government adopted the second policy. But, as the amount of imported logs increased, domestic forestry began to decline. Then, from 1976, the govenment changed its policy to the third one, “regional forestry” policy. It also turned out to be a failure by 1985, because of the low price of logs and the shortage of forest labor force.
In 1991, the Japanese government thought out a new policy called the “River Baisin Forestry Management” polisy. The characteristics of this new policy are as follows: (1) River Baisin Forestry area is much wider as a unit of forestry management area, consisting of national, public and private forest. (2) One of the aims of this policy is to have the upper mountainous area and the lower urban area of the river baisin cooperate mutually. (3) Another aim is to create the most productive forestry system by means of newly-developed mechanization, further forestry road construction, newly-organized forestry labor system and new forestry information system. I consider that this policy is very important and should be the last one under the “Forestry Fundamental Law”. But, this policy has some difficult factors in executing it. So, I propose that the “Forestry Fundamental Law” and the “Forest Law” should be combined and unified into a new law, the “River Basin Forestry Management Law”, so that the “River Baisin Forestry Management” policy should susceed much more effectively.
