A study on the hometown consciousness of metropolitan residents from the people’s residence history

Abstract

Currently, the Japanese government is working to build connections with local communities and create new flows of people to local communities in order to ease population concentration in Tokyo. In this study, we focused on "hometown" as a connection with the local area, and conducted an awareness survey in Saitama Prefecture. The purpose of this research is to clarify how people think about their hometowns and to use them as basic information for future regional revitalization. As a result of the survey, it was found that most of the people born and raised in Saitama Prefecture think that Saitama is their "hometowns", not the area where their grandparents and parents were born and raised. And few people had no definite “hometown”.