Abstract
In Japan, there are many examples of the development of rural sustainability. From them, we investigate the typical regeneration policy and practice of Kamikatsu-cho in Tokushima Prefecture. As the result of it, we know the development of rural sustainability depend on the idea of sustained maximum yield but also cultural capital and industrial experiment for regeneration of destroyed rural areas. Though these ideas were born in 1870 by J.Ruskin in the Victorian Age, we have the opportunity for industrial experiment and rural sustainability by the new technologies that support decentralized industry and community business like as information technology etc. in contemporary industrial society.
In the development of rural sustainability, we find the importance of public domain that depend on the intrinsic cultural tradition and customs that work as intangible cultural capital and many kinds of tangible ones like as cultural heritage, architecture, locations, sites and art works. These cultural capitals are the origin of holding fascination or amenity in the rural areas and promote the rural sustainability by the creative education opportunity for the next generation.
