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Akifumi ETO, Kenichirou ONITSUKA, Satoshi HOSHINO, Shizuka HASHIMOTO
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
189-194
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This study aims to clarify the potential of local online community utilization to facilitate Interactions & community development in expanded areas including some neighborhood settlements. As a result, we found the correlation between the interest of Interactions & Community Development and local online community utilization in expanded areas including some neighborhood settlements. The correlation is clarified based on a questionnaire survey.
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Toshihiro HATTORI, Hiroshi UENO
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
195-200
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The purpose of this study is to clarify the national trend of local self-governing organizations at the small autonomous unit. It depended on the questionnaire survey to 575 municipalities merged after 1999. Local self-governing organizations exist in 43.4% of the municipality merged after 1999. There are a lot of municipalities where local self-governing organizations exist in the municipality with large area. The opportunity of the organization making is the distance with the administration by merging of municipalities. And the present conditions evaluation to local self-governing organizations by person in charge of municipalities is excellent.
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Michihiko MAMADA, Haruhisa HARA, Hiroto TANAKA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
201-206
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This study focuses on using biomass with local government policy especially case of an enlarged municipality that is case of Seiyo City, Ehime Prefecture. Seiyo City is the union of the five towns into one in 2004. As a result of municipality merger, Seiyo City have scape of area from seaside to mountain. It need to consider that the differences of notion by old five towns for policy. Therefore, in this paper evaluated using woody biomass policy by inhabitant in Seiyo City, the method with Pairwise Comparison. As a result of Pairwise Comparison, it was verification the differences of notion.
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A Case of Chiiki-Okoshi Supporters in H City, Okayama Prefecture
Kotaro FUSAYASU
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
207-212
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This study focuses on “Chiiki-Okoshi-Supporters” in H city, Okayama Prefecture which is a kind of Rural-Regeneration Supporter. The purpose of this study is to reveal the actual conditions of Chiiki-Okoshi-Supporters and suggest issues for them toward making a living and settling in a rural area. The main findings are as follows: 1)There are 3 types of supporters. One carry out an activity aimed at getting income, another carry out an activity aimed at supporting community and getting income from the activity, and the other carry out both of the activities. 2) It is important to carry out several activities and get a small income from each activities, like the third type of supporter, except a case that supporters have a special career.
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a Case of Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture
Yoshiki KUWABARA, Masahiro NAKAJIMA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
213-218
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This paper aimed to reveal characteristics, activity processes, and personal network (PN) structures of migrants in “Chiiki-Okoshi-Kyoryokutai”, which is the program to promote rural regeneration. A survey was conducted in Tokamachi city, Niigata prefecture. The main findings were as follows: 1) The migrants' PNs could be classified into 4 groups by PN density and opportunities for forming relationships within the PN. 2) Specific directions on activities affected density of migrants' PNs. 3) The migrants' motivations to participate in “Chiiki-Okoshi-Kyoryokutai” affected opportunities for forming relationships within their PN.
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A Case of "A Misato-type Foot Path" of Misato-machi, Kumamoto
Jun TERAMURA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
219-224
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Foot Path such as those in Kyushu have recently attracted attention as a tool of community activation. Misato-machi of Kumamoto is in the active center of Kyushu, and its well-designed Foot Path have come to be known as “Misato-type”. Our research shows that it is important for community-activation coordinators to develop a trusting relationship with local residents. In addition, by devising an environment that facilitates ease of participation, coordinators are able to reduce the burden on local residents. As a specific example, and the like, "the maintenance of everyday life" and "greeting", "Engawa-Cafe".
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Satoshi TSUCHIYA, Keishi TANIMOTO, Hiromi KURAMOCHI
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
225-230
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In recent years, support services such as the food delivery service has been introduced and focused because of the increase in "shopping refugee" in the mountainous area. Considering the purchase environment of foods and daily commodities, declining in near future, “Saji-21” has started a food delivery service since 2013. In this study, we make it clear by a survey and statistical analysis; how much demand is there for the new food delivery service, what kind of people change behavior of purchase. Discussion will be made with the results linking the fact that it is in the early stage since the food delivery service has been started.
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Case of the Remote Island
Kosuke MIYAZAKI, Keishi TANIMOTO, Masayuki MORIYAMA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
231-236
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In rural areas, one of the approaches to increase the ridership of the public transport is to promote the tourists to use the service. However, the local residents may be discouraged to use the service and go out if the number of the tourists in car is so many to be crowded. This paper investigates the travel behavior of the local residents in the case of the remote island visited by many tourists.
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A Case Study of Nichinan Town, Tottori Prefecture
Makoto NOHMI
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
237-242
Published: November 20, 2015
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In this paper, I calculated the percentages of households visiting to other districts in Nichinan town, Tottori prefecture, and analyzed the relation between the percentages and factors influencing them by using the multiple regression analysis. I also made mutual visit areas among the districts based on the current percentage data, estimated the mutual visit areas for 2040 by using the multiple regression equation and compared the change of the mutual visit areas. It is important to investigate the future areas to organize the residents' associations carefully by considering the change of the number and size of the mutual visit areas.
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Case Study of Iketani and Iriyama Villages, To-kamachi City, Ni-gata Prefecture
Ayumi ABE, Maiko SUGAWARA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
243-248
Published: November 20, 2015
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This paper clarifies the way of involving with sustainable village management by outside-villages residents, conducting a case study of Iketani and Iriyama villages in Ni-gata prefecture. The various types of outside-villages residents visit the villages with each objective and they come from nearby the villages or distant urban cities. As the targets of hearing survey, we researched residents, the members of the To-kamachishi revitalization executive committee, the people moving or visiting from urban area. The comparative analysis showed that the outside-villages residents play each role of village management in accordance with position.
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Through statistical analysis using data obtained by a web questionnaire survey
Kenichirou ONITSUKA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
249-254
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This paper attempts to clarify effects of blood relationships with rural inhabitants on urban inhabitants' interests in rural and their resident areas. I conducted a questionnaire survey on the web with stratified sampling targeting both urban inhabitants and rural inhabitants all over Japan. 1,311 samples were collected, being divided into 3 groups, (a) urban inhabitants having blood relationships with rural inhabitants, (b) urban inhabitants without blood relationship and (c) rural inhabitants. I carried out Welch's t-test and analysis of variance to examine the significant differences between those groups. In the result, it was observed that urban inhabitants with blood relationships with rural inhabitants have higher interests in rural areas, as well as higher interests in their resident areas and higher social capital, which are close to rural inhabitants.
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Tomoko NAKAE, Hidenori MORITA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
255-260
Published: November 20, 2015
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Reproduction and increase prevention of abandoned farmland is an important issue in rural. This study is intended to evaluation of social and geographic factors that affect the distribution of cultivation abandonment land in Lake Kojima basin, Okayama Prefecture. Regression analysis was used for analysis. The inclination angle, elevation, management cultivated area were related to condition of cultivation abandonment land and the distribution of cultivation abandonment land.
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A case in 4 municipals of Gyeonggi Province, Korea
Seong Yoon CHOI, Eiji YAMAJI
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
261-266
Published: November 20, 2015
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An Application of Spatial Durbin Model
Ryosuke KIKUSHIMA, Shinsaku NAKAJIMA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
267-272
Published: November 20, 2015
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This paper aims to evaluate the local economic impact of the irrigation and drainage project in Tohoku and Hokuriku regions. Considering spatial autocorrelation between communities, Spatial Durbin Model is applied to the community-level data from the Rural Community Card, World Census of Agriculture and Forestry. The findings of this paper suggest that the irrigation and drainage project have impacted rural communities by increasing the ratio of area rent-in, and decreasing the ratio of ratio of farming household whose area of cultivated land is 2 hectares and over in the community.
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Keiji MIZUMA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
273-278
Published: November 20, 2015
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This study analyzed the relationships between repair costs and the period based on actual data from a pumping station. The actual data were collected by surveys of the model site and many other areas. This paper shows a method that predicts future repair costs based on survey results. When managing many pumping stations, it is desirable to predict the cost from the same sites. As a result of the calculations, the precision was high, and approximately one-tenth of the predicted value by the Ackerman curve. Further studies are necessary to confirm the proposal method using a large amount of data.
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Mari TAKEDA, Mikitaro SHOBAYASHI
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
279-284
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This study examined how each irrigation water users' recognition of water saving can influence volume of water they use under the system of volumetric irrigation water pricing on irrigation block units. The results showed that, large-scale cultivators may tend to have high cost of water saving. The volume of irrigation water use per area tends to be high in the irrigation blocks whose plots are mostly cultivated by large-scale farmers. In addition, transaction costs of collective action for water saving can influence the possibility of voluntary water saving.
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A Case Study of Sangawa Town, Sanuki City, Kagawa Prefecrure
Shohei OYAMA, Hidenori MORITA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
285-290
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This study shows the character of land use changes in farmlands and abolition reason of the irrigation ponds for 30 years from 1970s to 2000s as a case study of Sangawa Town, Sanuki City, Kagawa Prefecture by regression analysis. The results of the first regression analysis showed the relevance of a lot of the explanatory variables and land use changes in farmlands. And the results of the second regression analysis showed the relevance of the frequency of mowing and the abolition of the irrigation ponds.
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Satoshi OSAWA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
291-296
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It was investigated about the domestication proses of
Acorus calamus, the cultivation method, the characteristics of distribution and landscape of
A. calamus field in Kitaura district, Namekata city. The cultivation involves clone propagation by a subterranean stem, and the domestication of
A. calamus has been tried from 1983 in this district. Total of 43 sites and 7.5 ha of
A. calamus fields were observed in 2014 at low land in Kitaura lakefront area mainly. It was the feature of
A. calamus field that collective common farming is seen at the harvest season before a Boys' Festival.
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Yuko HONDA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
297-302
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This research aims to consider the tendency of local people's awareness modification through ongoing re-introduction project of Japanese crested ibis, in Sado city. A couple of questionnaire survey toward local people has been conducted in 2008, 2009, and 2014. As a result of survey, it was clarified that a number of agreement for re-introduction project have been increasing and expectation toward benefit from project itself also been expanding. It is suggested that there is a gap between local people's expectation and original goal of wildlife conservation policy, and this gap may become a sort of issue in future.
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Case Study in Nishikomi Village Amami-Oshima
Ikkei MATSUO, Yu SHIBATA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
303-308
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In Amami-Oshima, coral stone walls are made as a windbreak hedge in local houses and also contributes to a scenic village landscape. In recent years, many coral stone walls were replaced with brick fences and there are almost no villages where the coral stone walls remain in Amami-Oshima. This research grasped the distribution of the coral stone walls and the actual conditions of its landscape. The study also clarified the residents' evaluation of the village landscape of the coral stone wall through a case study in Nishikomi village, Setouchi city. This research has shown that residents need the coral stone wall for the aspect of function and village landscape in their daily life.
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From the Case Studies of Large Rice Farms in Hata of Kochi Prefecture
Masayuki OGAWA
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
309-314
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This study aims to clarify the rationality and development possibility of feed rice production in the area with the low rice price and low yield. The main outcomes are as follows. As the rice prices are low in optional rice yield, feed rice production tends to become rational more. Second, as the rice yields are low in optional rice price, feed rice production tends to become rational more. These two tendencies indicate development possibility of feed rice production in the rural area where rice production declines.
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Case of Hanyu City, Saitama Prefecture
Kohei FURUTA, Toshihiro HATTORI
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
315-320
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The Agricultural Land Act was revised in 2009 to allow corporate entry into Agricultural business through farmland leasing. The number of corporations that lease farmland from farmers is increasing. The purpose of this study is to clarify the influence on regional agriculture by corporate entry. We surveyed management of farmland use rights and behavior of farmland owners. The right adjustment related the farmer in all regions and was executed. Farmland owners rented their farmland to corporation without much of hesitation.
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Evaluation of progress and situation through preparation of regional laws and coming law on national level
Miki NAKANO, Eiji YAMAJI
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2015 Volume 34 Issue Special_Issue Pages
321-326
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This paper aimed on clear up the situation of Social Farming in Italy which is considered as new frontier of the multifunctionality of agriculture. Although the number of Social Farming activities are increasing rapidly in Europe, there are many different definitions and understandings. Through the study on the opinion paper issued by EESC in 2012 and on coming law for Social Farming issued by Italian minister of agriculture, aimed to evaluate the value and positive effects of Social Farming on society.
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