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The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a survey I made of full-time migratory laborers of a fishing village in Hokkaido. The situation of migratory laborers and circumstances under which they have to work have greatly changed in the past 10 or so years. The survey made in 1992, which was the first one I conducted since my 1980 survey, showed how the situation of migratory laborers and the circumstances of their working places have changed during those twelve years. The number of migratory laborers at Kumaishi is decreasing every year and is steadily aging. The extention of the working period and increase of workers in Tokyo or other areas except Hokkaido during the winter are recent trends of migratory laborers. It is characteristic of them to have fixed working places each season, also.
In this essay, I would like to consider the above-mentioned facts, and then refer to how migratory laborers have acquired their skills since the employment insurance system was revised, and the actual living conditions of migratory laborers in old age.
