Abstract
Friendly-greeting campaign is one of the activities
aimed at safety of children, fostering and
strengthening of local communities, and crime
prevention. It can be a starting point of
intergenerational exchange in the region. The
purposes of this paper were to consider the effects of
friendly-greeting campaign theoretically and to sort
out devices and problems on activities through a
review of previous researches and reports of the
advanced cases. The results indicated that the
campaign can have beneficent effects on
development of each generations: fixation of greeting
habit and promotion of socialization for children,
and the ferment of generativity for middle and old
age. Moreover, it was found that there are 3 points to
carry out friendly-greeting campaign effectively:
(1)to hold activities on basis of long-term deployment
plan, not as a one-short event, (2)to lead wide range
of age groups in activities through cooperation
between the citizens and administrative organs, or
between schools and local residents, and
(3)visualization of activities by use of promotional
items and holding events related to friendly-greeting
campaign. It will be necessary to study effects of the
campaign, or devices and problems on activities, in
detail and empirically through systematic
investigation or interview about the advanced cases
from now on.
https://ror.org/03rd0p893 
