In this study, we analyze the current state of migration information collection of the migration applicant in the capital area. A questionnaire survey was conducted on the web with stratified sampling targeting for migration applicant in the capital area and 1,000 samples were collected. Based on the results of our research, we found that the migration applicants use administrative homepages well. Information contents collecting vary, information on important factors as a living environment such as "shopping environment", "medical environment", "public transportation environment" are collected. It is important that administration sends information for immigrants to the homepage.

This study aims to find a synergistic effect between the promotion of settlement in rural areas and community-based projects for agricultural diversification through qualitative research, such as participant observation and interviews. The findings revealed three major effects: 1) providing the opportunity for new residents to talk with those native and recently moved to the area who are all engaged in a community-based project; 2) showing the ease of starting a new business with new talent; and 3) proving the financial stability of agricultural diversification for those who wish to move into agriculture.

This study aimed to reveal the relationship between change of activities and personal networks(PN) of Community -Reactivating Cooperator Squad(volunteers for revitalization of rural regions) in case of Tokamachi city, Niigata prefecture. The main findings were as follows: (1)The volunteers formed the PN with the residents of Tokamachi city, through their community support activities during the term of office. (2)Through the PN, they developed their activities of the primary industry and tourism during the service and continued / developed the activities of the primary industry, tourism, and community support after the term of office.

We investigated the development process of organized farm-inn district, “Shunran-no-Sato” in Noto Town, Ishikawa Prefecture and examined some problems. In order to clarify the roles of the leader and the system of organized farm-inn district, we divided the whole process (from 1996 to 2017) of the organized farm-inn district into three periods: the starting period, the forming period and the developing period. Based on intensive interviews and participant observation, we found that the roles of the leader were quite important in both the starting period and the forming period. On the other hand, establishing the system of organized farm-inn district become important in the forming period and developing period. In the future, the succession of the role of the leader becomes a most serious problem for this district.

In Kyoto Prefecture, the number of rural-inns and inbound tourists has rapidly increased. We conducted a questionnaire survey targeting all rural-inns in Kyoto Prefecture, and analyzed factors for increasing number of foreign guests and for owners’ motivation. The results of the analysis indicated that attractiveness of exterior of the rural-inn buildings and voluntary information dissemination from rural-inns affected the increase in the number of foreign guests. Besides, owners could have improved motivation by easing the anxiety about foreigner and by raising expectation of income, and more opportunities to have foreign guests is considered effective.

Although Taiwan government had started to promote rural tourism since 1970s, most of tourism was managed by governmental organizations or particular investors, and involvement of residents or communities has not been considered remarkable. In 1999, “The 921 Earthquake” attacked Nantou prefecture, after that, green tourism led by residents was promoted in some rural communities through earthquake disaster reconstruction. This study aims to elucidate the process and disclose how regional resource and site condition affect the style of green tourisms based on case study.

In recent years, it has become more convenient for disadvantageous rural areas to disseminate regional information, such as images featuring beautiful landscapes, through new communication media like social media. However, if the impressions of the landscapes differ between local residents and nonresidents, the locality's beauty is not conveyed effectively. In this study, we focused on the differences of impressions and awareness of rural landscapes between local residents and nonresidents through comparative analysis using questionnaire. Results show that there are significant differences in impressions and awareness between local residents and nonresidents. We suggest that wide angle images taken from high vantage points, historical sites and other areas which are sometimes considered unattractive by locals are effective to attract outside visitors.

The purpose of this study is to clarify actual management and development process of the Magazine with food, which can be regarded as a new platform for producers and consumers exchange. The characteristics of the Magazine is product which foods and information of producers are combined, and it prepares an on-line community which producers and consumers always exchange. By reversing the conventional master(food) and servant(media), it obtained sustainable management. Three development factors are as follows. The first factor is to be considered as not food service but new “media”. The second is management policy that respects each local independence, and the third is management system that shares a payment system and important knowledge.

In this research, we clarify the problems of farming and the effort based on the interviews with new farmers and heirs in Utsunomiya city, the suburbs of the metropolitan Tokyo. As a result, they are generally characterized by return to their hometown of Utsunomiya city. And they choose a new job as a farming. However, even if they are from Utsunomiya city, it is difficult to securing farmland. Moreover, the new farmers in the suburbs of the metropolitan areas tend to have two different settlements with a residential and a farmland, compared with new farmers in the hilled rural areas. Therefore, in order to overcome these challenges, it is important for them to interact with farmers in the local community.

Recently, it is recognized that the development of sustainable urban agriculture is an important topic for the urban management. While the business diversification of urban farmers is one of the means to exploit multi-functionalities of the urban agriculture, it is unclear what are the determinants for promoting farm diversification and what kinds of businesses are effective in the farm performance. This study completed a questionnaire survey targeting existing farmers in Tokyo. As a result, there are some differences between mass-marketing farmers, direct-marketing farmers and indirect-marketing farmers in terms of the farm size, customer relationship capability, farm objectives and farm performance.

This research clarified what should be emphasized from actual dispatched staff experience when dispatching staff to the afflicted area by examining agricultural engineering engineers dispatched from Kyoto and Hyogo Prefectures to the afflicted areas of eastern Japan great earthquake disaster. We pointed out that it is important to understand the importance of mental attitudes at the time of dispatch, the necessity of an appropriate setting of the dispatch periods, and the importance and difficulty of succession of the dispatch experiences. We suggested preparations at normal time, that is, 1) confirmations in advance whether staffs can be dispatched to disaster area or not, 2) succession of the dispatch experiences, 3) roles organization between disaster area’s staffs and dispatched ones, and 4) personnel exchange among municipalities.

The characteristics of reconstruction process of farming families are different from ordinary disaster victims. In this study, we conducted the hearing survey to damaged farming families to clarify their reconstruction process of the Kumamoto earthquake and we organized elements of their living conditions in chronological order. As a results of this study are as follows; the priority of continuation of agriculture is high for farming families, and they tend to seek refuge at their barn or storehouse without public shelter. Moreover, even if their damages are small, damaged farming families need united efforts of others in their reconstruction process.

To record experiences and reconstruction process of the earthquake disasters have been conducted after the past disasters in Japan, and the connections of people are important in the reconstruction process. In this study, we conducted the hearing survey at two agricultural villages in the disaster area of the Kumamoto earthquake, and record the detail of these village’s reconstruction process of 5 months after the earthquake. As a results of this study are as follows; the connections of victims on the village’s lead to the cooperation of people, the swift actions, and more, and the connections between victims and outside personnel lead to the realization of the demand of victims and bank up the disaster area.

In this paper, I presented a method to weigh three archetype situations of people flows in order to express the actual people flows in a county level area as a linear combination of the three archetype situations, and applied the method for the analysis of the commuters’ flows and house movers’ flows. It has become clear that the importance of the areas for commutation has increased since 1990, and, compared with the commuters’flows, the house movers’ flows do not have a common trend. Under the condition that the number of commuters does not increase, the quality improvement of the pre-constructed roads in the area is important.

“Compact Villages” have begun to secure sustainable life in rural areas. This study was undertaken to assess the variation of Compact Villages. We suggest the indicator of “Compact Village Potential”, to choose Compact Villages objectively, considering Hard (daily facilities, roads, etc.) and Soft (social capital) factors. Then we present a case study in Chugoku Shikoku District. From our analyses, we showed that choosing Compact Villages from only Hard viewpoint may arise areas far from Compact Villages. However, from Soft viewpoint, there are villages without Hard but with Soft enough, as “Compact-Compact Villages”, different from the Compact Villages having Hard enough. To cover wide rural areas, a combination of such Villages will be necessary.

The purpose of this research is the following two. We will confirm utilization situations of unused public facilities that occurred after municipal merger. We will clarify public interests and administrative supports through attracting companies to unused public facilities. And, this study is targeted at Minamiboso city, Chiba Prefecture. Minamiboso city was born in 2006 by merger of 7 municipalities. Therefore, there are many unused public facilities in Minamiboso city. Therefore, Minamiboso city has determined that it is appropriate as a target area of this study.

This study focused on the operation of small hydro power plants (generating 1,000 kW of power or less) owned by agricultural cooperatives in the Chugoku Region, and the effects of the Feed-in Tariff Scheme on their operation. The results reveal that the plants have provided employment opportunities in local communities, and suggest that the development of community power first requires financial support to revamp the plants and then further support to bring in a new generation of technicians to maintain them.

This paper aims to clarify the realities of applications for water rights from hydropower generation in the Kinu River in the Meiji Era, when Japan’s power generation industry began. Through analyses of related documents, including confidential background papers, it also examines how the Tochigi prefectural government handled the applications. The documents reveal that: 1) different people rushed to file applications just to make sales, 2) the prefectural government’s engineers were devoted to avoiding conflicts with existing local irrigation projects at cost to the company, and 3) the accepted rights were later sold to another company to be used on a different project.

Japanese irrigation systems should be reformed along agricultural transition and rural structural change. An application of the service science framework to irrigation management could be considered. From this perspective, we would examine the 2nd Phase Project in Aichi-Irrigation Project, where irrigation canals were renovated for introducing on-demand water management. Our testable hypothesis is that water-intake stabilization effect could be proved by the increase in water-intake volume per area after the Project. Results of DID estimation are consistent with the hypothesis. Thus, we conclude that Aichi-Irrigation’s 2nd Phase Project improved the irrigation services to rise farmers’ satisfaction through the stabilization of water.

From a viewpoint of local production of energy for local consumption, this study conducts regional economic analysis using an input-output table of a local area, and measures the socio-economic impacts of woody biomass utilization policies with a constraint of input resources amount for sustainable use. Two scenarios are analyzed. The one is “end material use policy of woody biomass”, which resulted in 1,234 (mil. yen/year) of total regional output increase, while the other is “small-scale electricity generation policy”, which resulted in 2,905 (mil. yen/year).

The purpose of our paper are as follows: 1) to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) for using liquid fertilizer using the contingent valuation method (CVM), and 2) to simulate the management balance of methane fermentation facilities with producers selling liquid fertilizer to consumers at an appropriate price. Our results indicated that the mean WTP for using liquid fertilizer is 1,032 yen per ton and the median WTP is 681 yen per ton. After adopting the mean WTP as the appropriate price for liquid fertilizer, we simulated three scenarios of the management balance of a methane fermentation facility. We found that selling liquid fertilizer at an appropriate price supported the calculations in our study will improve the management balance by a maximum of 17 %, as compared with the current situation of methane fermentation facilities. Based on our results, we conclude that using liquid fertilizer may help the management balance of the facilities under the appropriate conditions. To do so, communicating accurate information regarding liquid fertilizer to consumers is an important factor in order to improve the management balance.

Although diverse water play has been expected to cultivate children’s sensibility, the serious accidents have been occurring around rivers. This study aimed to elucidate the regional social system that supports the safety of children’s diverse water play, and the issues for its sustainability were discussed, through a case study in Gujohachiman, Gifu prefecture. As a result, the safety was improved with three rescue functions around rivers. The functions were developed by five effects of seven approaches by various regional entities. It was the issue to strengthen the children’s approach to parents and to control the excess river use of tourists by regional government.

Recently, it is pointed out that the supply of roofing miscanthus grasses for cultural properties is short with the decline of miscanthus grasslands. This study clarifies the supply and demand of roofing miscanthus grasses for cultural properties and the role and maintenance of small-local grassland. The current supply amount of roofing miscanthus grasses has fully satisfied the demand for nationally designated cultural properties, not be able to meet the demand for all of the cultural property. Small-local grasslands play an important role in the preservation of local cultural properties, and it is necessary to manage the whole area of small-local grassland by mountain burning.

It is difficult to measure the agricultural damage caused by wildlife. Presently, in the Japanese rural areas, there is a clear understanding of the damage caused by wildlife; however, a statistical estimation of the damage is not available. Ensuring appropriate countermeasures is difficult without sufficient data. So, we examined a new method for measuring agricultural damage caused by wildlife. We surveyed the extent of damage by using a questionnaire. We then converted the extent of damage to the farm area into equivalent amounts of money for each village, by using a standard production model.

One of the agricultural extension method, Farmers Field School （FFS） is now considered really effective to promote social forestry project after the success of Intensified Social Forestry Project （ISFP） in semi-arid areas of Kenya. This research aimed to find out the reason why FFS method can lead participants to actively conduct social forestry activities after FFS graduation by utilizing environment-conscious behaviors model. As a result, it is found that activeness of social forestry activities can be explained by hypothetical tree-planting behaviors model and also FFS method developed some psychological indicator thorough well-considered long term learning curriculum.

This paper is to explore how rural communities can transfer its traditional culture in a sustainable and endogenous manner while understanding the “succession” of a particular traditional culture, the ritual Kagura dancing tradition on a case of the Takachihogo-Shiibayama area (recognized as the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems). The study examines three aspects, 1) cooperation among neighboring communities, 2) home-coming of younger generations and return migration, and 3) inclusion of children as performers, in relation with age distributions, showing both quantitative and qualitative survey results. The results indicate that the succession is currently supported by new types of participants, and that the traditional cultural events provide opportunities for ex-villagers to be back to their hometown, suggesting a new form of succession of traditional cultures of depopulating rural areas.

This study aims to clarify the function and the role of WWF as an intermediary for community based coral reef conservation. We clarified three points of follows as a policy to balance community improvement with coral reef conservation.
1)WWF enlarged opportunities of cooperation with community by interpreting coral reef conservation as not only the protection of natural environments and the creature but also the succession of coral reef culture.
2)An action to raise sense of ownership and sense of efficacy led community to red soil prevention.
3)WWF relate coral reef conservation to the occupation and built the structure which economic incentive acts on.
When immigrant collaborates with local community, the method of WWF is regarded as useful knowledge.