Abstract
Though the ownership program has expanded throughout Japan in recent years, to maintain its activity seems difficult. Understanding and cooperation of the local people, who does not involved in the program at present, are necessary for keeping ownership program. The authors made a questionnaire survey to all local households of the neighboring settlements of the rice terraces at Oyama Senmaida in Kamogawa city.
Asking one people from every household to answer, the ratio of participants from replied people are 16 % and the rest are non-participants. Based on the questionnaire survey, half of non-participants have interests to the program, 20 % of them have a will to participate when they have a chance. People's evaluation between participants and non-participants differs much at the items of “landscape of the ama”, “revitalization of elders and females”, “awareness of local preciousness” and “chance of employment and income”.
As the result, notification of the program and revitalization of local community are important for increasing non-participants interest and perception.
