Abstract
This study aims firstly to reveal how community life is managed by residents in a privately run dormitory, and secondly to gain
knowledge about how to make successful self-management in student dormitory. Since 2004, when the dormitory was opened, the
private enterprise had tentatively supported self-management by the residents until it was considered to be working actively.
However, after the restraint on the support, there was a loss of self-management function due to the turnover of residents. Therefore
the enterprise has started its support again by organizing meetings among the new residents and making contact with a student
representative by email. The support has consequently encouraged the residents to call attention through messages on a whiteboard,
with the resident representative taking the lead. From the above, the following were found out to play a key role in
self-management of community life in dormitory: 1) Meetings about self-management among residents 2) Student representative
who takes the lead in self-management 3) Contact system among residents in order to call attention 4) Outside support for
self-management such as communication with residents
