抄録
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries carried out agriculture village census eight times from 1955 to 2000. This census is the statistical investigation of the Japanese rural community in whole country. Investigation item is different in each time, influenced by the change of the focus of the rural problems. For example, the characteristic of the traditional village community was investigated in 1955, rural-urban intercourse and new group activity by women is included in 2000. Recent investigation shows that, non-farmhouses increased, and farmhouses are only about 10％ within the households of the village, as the result of urbanization. It is one of the process of de-agriculture in Japanese agriculture village.
