Recently the youth who go to rural area continues to increase. The governments establish a policy of making the best use of supporters for local community. They understand local communities through working together with local inhabitants. And then they try to make efficient use of local resources and connect to rewarding works. But we had better not to expect easily they settle down in rural area. Firstly, it is necessary for making progress together with supporters, local inhabitants, and coordinators in local government.

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Recently, issues related to the lack of younger generation citizenry involved in community leadership due to depopulation and an aging society in mid-mountainous rural areas are remarkable. To address these problems, various relocation plans have already been initiated and some people have indeed relocated however, obstacles concerning employment or housing still remain. In this study, a survey related to income was carried out on these relocated people as well as their current income situation. The results are herby reported.

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In this paper, I introduces education program on supporters for rural community. This program is called “Community Development Coordinate Game” and “Process Sheet and Road map”. The former program is for beginners and the second one is for over-1-year supporters. This game is simulation game about community development that can educate and coordinate image for community's endogenous development. Process sheet and Road map is analysis program of their activities. These two programs are to encourage endogenous development of rural communities and to update the processes by considering local situations. And at the last, I show the idea of vision of the education program on supporters for rural community including not only supporters but also local government's officers.

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This paper discusses the endogenous development theory in Japan based on the “regions”. It raises contemporary topics by reviewing empirical research in rural geography and by examining some practices in regions. The endogenous development theory has been developed as a social movement theory of municipality. However, since rural areas have been diversified, they should be taken up as places of human development. Therefore the endogenous development theory should be a forum for interdisciplinary research of “regions”.

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The aim of this paper is to show a view of the relationship between some theories on rural regeneration and supporters for local community. In Japan, the endogenous development theory (EDT) has been convincing in the rural study. However it is necessary for us to embody the EDT in line with the current rural situation. The theory on rural innovation has tried to practice it and advocated the need for promoting the exchange activities between urban and rural areas. Recently there is some tendency that urban young people move into rural areas for supporting rural regeneration through the exchange activities. Therefore EDT for rural area will need to collaborate with outside actors such as young residents in urban areas.

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In February of 2012, the Sakae village recovery program committee (SVRC) was established one year after the earth quake of Northern Nagano area. In October 2012, the author himself, Kazuhiro Kimura lead as chairman of the committee, gathered the reconstruction plan of the area known as “Sakae Village Recovery Program from the earth quake of Northern Nagano area”. Due to the complexity of the damage, the recovery program became far more extensive than its original scope, the SVRC introduced new advisory positions to supervise each of the tasks and to ensure coherency with the project overall. This comprehensive process points to the restructuring of the governing body. In this paper, we are going to define the forthcoming mission to the recovery program and the process behind the comprehensive operations.

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This study aims to analyze the meaning of the resumption of farming to return to the hometown. We interviewed the evacuee who lives in a temporary housing and the evacuated farmer who resume farming. The evacuee and the evacuated farmer to resume farming want to return the hometown and resume farming. We must study elements to need in the hometown life.

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