Abstract
A fishing village is a kind of local community. This case study tries to analyze the occurrence-existence relation of a fishing village's problems historically and show how the policies of those problems functioned. The text analysis of this study is done by The Mihonoseki newspaper which is published as local paper and records Mihonoseki fishing port in Yatsuka county, Shimane Pref. This study can suggest these three points as following after the text analysis.
Firstly, the focus of the problems had changed during the ages from the 14th year of Taisho (1925) to the 7th year of Heisei (1995). It was in fishery at first and in transportation and in tourism. Secondly, the policies of the community which make new problems have their limitations themselves. Third, there was some attempt to connect tourism and fishery, and to promote volunteering events as for the solution of the problems.
