抄録
The purpose of this study is to clarify the national trend of local self-governing organizations at the small autonomous unit. It depended on the questionnaire survey to 575 municipalities merged after 1999. Local self-governing organizations exist in 43.4% of the municipality merged after 1999. There are a lot of municipalities where local self-governing organizations exist in the municipality with large area. The opportunity of the organization making is the distance with the administration by merging of municipalities. And the present conditions evaluation to local self-governing organizations by person in charge of municipalities is excellent.
