Abstract
As ageing all over the world, percentage of elderly working force in Japan has continued to grow as much as that of other aging countries. But previous researches about elderly working or elderly employment in Japan mainly has focused in the profitability of that or social background of elderly workers, hasn’t focused in elderly worker’s experiences and narratives about their situation. This paper tries to reconsider values of work/labor and Ageing and employment policies through observing fishermen‘s everyday lives, their fishing practices and interviewing four elderly fishermen’s life histories in Oma, Aomori. It concludes that elderly fishermen can work/labor for the
purposes other than earning money, for getting their ideal state of being as a fisherman.
