The contemporaly society brought various difficulties to the rural society, while at the same time it trained condition which develop the rural society into the next time. We can point out as recent major changes of situation a national standardization on a way of life, developing on equipment of social infrastructure, a civilization of people's behavior in the rural society, a deadlock on the city civlization, and the upgarade of revaluation on the rural civilization, which have appeared during the period of the high growth of the Japanese economy.
The agriculture and the rural society are suffered in the new environment and condition of heavy globalization, and now the building of social support policy for the suffering is an important problem. But moreover we must conceive the regional vision towards 21st century as the building and enrichment of “the rural civil society”, premising a somewhat strong potential of rural people who live and act as contemporaly citizens.