2019 Volume 38 Issue Special_Issue Pages 205-214
This study got two knowledge which considered as spatial and social factors for harmonizing with a variety of residents in Shiraho of Ishigaki island in Okinawa.
1. Spatial factors to build relationships between convention inhabitants and immigrant; Each regional division of Shiraho community is a residential area that contains a variety of residents. The residential land in Shiraho is limited. Therefore, to possibility of the land acquisition of the times, residential land is enlarged flexibly. Several plots for a house were developed simultaneously. For the reasons, it goes ahead mixing a variety residents. It is connected to the spatial harmony of the residents that the group as the base unit of the community center is changed depending on expansion of the residence area flexibly.
2. Knowledge to build relationships of variety of residents socially; The harmony with the area promotes it by making a new festival together as the opportunity when a variety of residents collaborate. In addition, in the place of the learning, an immigrant from the outside the prefecture understands an area, and it is an opportunity to grope for a method of participation, the contribution. It functions as a device of the social harmony to show the significance of existence of the immigrant for the area concerned to a public hall officer or a group leader definitely by appointing an immigrant positively.
