Congratulation! Golden jubilee of the Japanese Association for Rural Studies which was established in 1953. In a sense, it inherited the Association of Rural Sociology (Sonraku Shakaigakkai) established in 1931, and dissolved in 1938. The person who has done distinguished service to establish this Association was Professor Kizaemon Aruga.
I attended the First Congress of Rural Studies as a regular member held in Tohoku University at Sendai. Distinguishing features of this Association are that members are specialists of rural studies from various disciplines, such as sociology, economics, jurisprudence, ethnology, historical science, and geography, and then, the congress of this Association is usually sojourn together over two days and nights in the same hotel accommodations.
