Abstract
Through a case study of an elementary school division in Sasayama city, this paper clarified the actual situation and the problems of autonomous organizations. The problems were; 1) The inhabitants were burdened with too many posts for the size of the community. 2) The present mechanism of administrative assistance and autonomous organization didn't fit the needs peculiar to each area. Therefore the inhabitants, especially who were deeply involved in the community, sought a breakthrough. Based on this analysis, we showed a direction for the independence and the activation of the community with the reconstruction of the autonomous organization in an elementary school division.
