Abstract
After the end of the World War II about 100 repatriates settled here on 710 hectares area. Because there were no other cultivated lands around and they were already in groups, they founded here an agglomerated settlement around Nobeyama Station (see fig.1), which also enabled them to cut down the cost of electric installation.
They raised exclusively vegetables, i.e. chinese cabbage, cabbage, radish, etc. But such monoculture was unstable at times of depression. So their leaders decided to adopt the mixed-culture of vegetable raising and stockbreeding instead. To realize it, it was necessary to remove some farmhouses to the environments to shorten the distance between home and field. Thus the agglometated settlement has changed into a dispersed settlement (see fig.2), which uncommon in Japan except in Hokkaido.
