Abstract
Satoyama books were analyzed in order to clarify public interests and concerns on Satoyama secondary forest use and management. First, the NDL Search Database of National Diet Library of Japan was used in order to collect every commercial book which has a word ‘Satoyama’ in its title. As a result two hundred and sixty nine Satoyama books were found. The first Satoyama book appeared in 1985 and Satoyama books have been constantly published after 1990's. Especially ten to twenty Satoyama books were constantly published every year in the twenty first century. The target readers were adults in the early years but were spread to school pupils in the twenty first century. Satoyama books were found in every first hierarchical level of Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC) Standards of Japanese books. This means that public interests and concerns were spread into all genres of academic topics. Also, Satoyama books were referred to thirty two of forty seven prefectures. This means that public interests and concerns of Satoyama were geographically spread throughout in Japan. Lastly the keyword analyses of Satoyama books using KJ Method suggested that public interests and concerns were divided into seven types and further sub-divided into fourteen sub-types. It can be pointed out that these results clarified in this paper should be used in government Satoyama secondary forest management policies or Satoyama recreational use planning and so forth.
