Abstract
The Tachiki (living trees) Trust movement against golf course development was begun by an association of urban consumers and farmers in Miyoshi Village. The consumers had a fear of chemical harm, a traditional viewpoint of the Japanese environmental movement. The farmers had the opinion that development was the wrong way to vitalize their village, which is a current viewpoint of regional planning. This study aimed to examine how those viewpoints were possessed by the nationwide contributors to the Tachiki Trust. A questionnaire survey revealed that the main force of the contributors were females born during the wartime and the postwar baby-boom, who became aware of chemical harm by having children and by doing domestic duties during the decade from 1975. The contributors had both strong affection for the wilderness and new values as to the true vitalization together with conservation. They regarded the Tachiki Trust as an urgent and transitional method to conserve nature.
