Abstract
Should squatting, which is a worldwide phenomenon, be treated as an extralegal concept positioned outside the framework of national law, or should it be incorporated within legal frameworks? Squats are normally regarded as areas in which national law does not apply, and as such, the civil authorities of nations that do not address squatting in their legal systems either turn a blind eye to it or resort to eviction. This report, however, concerns itself with one of the biggest cases of illegal occupation in Japan, and how the authorities sought to resolve the issue amicably through public compensation conforming to the nationʼs legal system. In this respect, illegal occupation could be seen as having been incorporated within the nationʼs legal system.
The squatters concerned in this case were forced to live life in the raw, alienated from the privileges that normally attach to individuals, such as good environment （the site suffered jet noise pollution）, status as nationals （the squatters were Korean）, and property under the law. Public compensation for the illegally occupied land rather pointed to opportunities in the system for remediation in the process of personification.
More specifically, I attempt to show how it was in the context of personification of (1) airport facilities at the public administration level and (2) roadside deities at the private sector level that compensation for the people living on the illegally occupied site was arranged and illegal occupation resolved.
The purpose of this report is to provide social policy pointers to halting and reversing the localized proliferation of poverty.
In addition, this paper applies theory of "Validated law" in everyday practice to a 9.0 earthquake struck northern Japan this March 11. By the big tsunami, smaller-scale fishermen and older couldnʼt recover even with government help. Miyagi governor, as a partial solution, proposed opening coastal waters to big-business investors. Coastal fishing rights always belong to Fisheries Cooperative Agencies.
However, the fishing cooperative agencies will help themselves with their original ways-kyogyo-ka (cooperation with their memberships).
