From the results of opinion research in villages, we can conclude that the important conditions, though not the sole cause, for the existence of the scattered type of settlement are the following two points. (1) Facilities for cultivation : in this type of community, farmers can gather their cultivated lands around their houses. (2) Need : they can protect their houses from fire spreads by strong winds. Different characteristics of this type of settlement can be enumerated. First, the labor force is needless than in the collective village, because the fields lie near the owner's house. Therefore, there is created greater pressure toward emmigration. Second, the country town, i. e. «rurbanity» develops, which can satisfy the everyday needs of the farmers in the scattered and isolated settlements. Third, for the same reason, the neighbourhood relationships and consciousness of them are weaker than in the collective village. (But in the buraku relationships, the larger territorial ones, the difference is not so clear, and it may be said that the conditioning influence from the isolation of houses has a limit.) Fourth, the unidimensionality between the neighbourhood relationships and the buraku relationships, which can be observed in the collective village, does not exist, and the former and the latter become heterogeneous in some degree. Moreover according to the results of the research concerning cosciousness of the territorial relationships, rather individualistic persons are many. The status evaluation research also shows many who give particular evaluation quite different from others. From these facts stronger individuality of the inhabitants may be presumed. Finally, in the scattered settlements cultivation is essentially more important to the farmers than social life, and so they attach more importance to the physical conditions, such as land and climatic factors than to the human relations, for instance, to their neighbours. In short, the attitudes and personalities. in the scattered villagers are individualistic and may be related to material phenomema.
