This paper analyzes the process of Japanese television design development through mid to late 1960s by focusing on the relationship between Japanese lifestyle and Kagucho-TV designs in that period. In mid 1960s in Japan, the popularity of monochrome TV started to decline and color televisions appeared on the market. Meanwhile, Kagucho-TV, the first television style exhibiting unique Japanese taste, became a trend. Before the Kagucho-TV, American influenced console type was the most accepted television design. The Kagucho style was also influenced by Danish design in concept, but its form was adjusted to Japanese way of living. Color televisions inherited the Kagucho style and further evolved into a low price table type to meet customer needs in increasing TV popularity. The table type television set was constructed from two main parts: a cabinet-like wooden body and coordinated under cabinet. This was the birth of the second generation Kagucho style.

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It is commonly known that in postwar Japan, kitchen spaces had been revolutionized caused by new factors such as the DK system, new materials and equipments. Considering such situation, this paper aims to clarify the transition of kitchen spaces in Showa postwar era, by looking through into the authorized textbooks on home economics and analyzing the tendency of keywords which are written in the original texts. Above all the research, we gained knowledge about the spread level of new kitchen factors and its educational influences. The conclusions are the followings: -Enlightenments of "hygiene" and "efficiency" were treated as the leading subjects in the textbooks of postwar documents and as well as the prewar period. Therefore it is considered that the new kitchen innovation originated in the late Meiji era. -The introduction of the DK system was the turning point of descriptions. After the introduction, new factors were to be found in the text; such as "ornament", "partition", "atmosphere" of the kitchen space, and so on. -It is remarkable that the factors which enabled a kitchen territory to functionally extend as DK were the "ventilating fan" and the "stainless steel"

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I examine the status of "The Sick child Peer-Counseling project", which the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and an NPO have undertaken since 2005. Peer-counseling, a practice that began in Europe and America in the 20th century is performed by a person who has been through The experience similar to the client's. The mothers who became peer counselor had been deprived of sympathy in everyday life with the parents who did not have the sickness and the trouble. These deprived experiences appear to be a common one in the context of peer-counseling. At the same time, the individuality in the situation and the target is clarified. This does not lead to a sense of alienation, but one of the mutual interests because the peer counselor and the client are interested in each other's situation. In addition, this led to the case where one individual would emphasis their way against that of the other's. In this manner, double individuality is concomitant. As not a professional worker but one mother, the peer-counselor that attended the two-days course is existence, and an amateur consciously of commonness and individual of the experience who it is an amateur and is not the lay and not the specialist. Thus, peer counseling is based on such "amateurism"

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The aim of this paper is to describe Himuka-mura movement and machi-okoshi activities in Aya, Miyazaki Prefecture as the process of reformation of local culture, and to reconsider local development and invention of local identity in a period of high economy growth as social and historical context in Japan. Aya invited more than a million of tourists in 1996 and has been praised as one of the best models or at the forefront of machi-okoshi activities for other areas. Aya has built up a unique culture through Himuka-mura movement which criticized the situation of the times in Japan with a clear definition 'culture' is evaluated in opposition to 'civilization'. Through this detail description, I would argue machi-okoshi activities to be attempt to seek the new way of connection with 'center' by 'local' and to be a form of 'objectification of culture' in order to choose 'culture' which is intimate with worth and intention in 'center'. It would mean the process of historical reorganization of culture on condition that difference is needed for commercial value.

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IThis study is investigated the historical transfiguration of agricultural products, agricultural life and landscape in the Yamakoshi region of Nagaoka-city, Niigatta Prefecture. Before the great earthquake of Cyuetsu in 2007, this area was very popular for local cameraman and other people because of its beautiful agricultural landscape. Especially, pond terraces for breeding Nishikigoi carps created landscape characteristic of this area. In Japan, many people have loved Nishikigoi since the 1800s. Conclusion was that most of the landscape in this area went through major changes from 1960 to 1980, caused by the popular sales of Nishikigoi during the rapid economic growth. In this age, many rice terraces were transfigured into breeding ponds for Nishikigoi, and many houses were rebuilt. An agreement of rice acreage reduction started in 1970, pushing the change of rice products to carp production. Area dates of agricultural fields in Japan and in the Yamakoshi region, along with the area date of ponds in the Yamakoshi region confirm this situation. Transfiguration of agricultural products and life also help change the relationship of agricultural elements and people's life style. For example, the use of compost, woods for drying rice, sericulture, and carp's feed (pupa) was developed.

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Shiratori-chiku, in Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture, is a community located in the estuarine area of the Uzuma river. Until riparian flood defences were built, the area often suffered from flooding. The community's ancient festival (since 1534) and folklore are connected with the Uzuma river. Though the festival holds an annual Toya event (頭屋行事), some rites have been changed remarkably since 2003. In this paper, I try to analyze this transformation, and through fieldwork, make correlations between rites and the people of Shiratori-chiku. I discuss the following problems from the viewpoint of information behavior: How do the rites represent the social order of the community? How do people have an effect on the festival? I investigated the festival by inspecting the practices of each rite: "Wakamizu-kumi (若水汲み)", "Kimen-syakyu (鬼面射弓)", etc. As a result, we can ascertain, from the operations of the festival, the following: (1) They have encoded valuable pieces of information about their history, and have created a ritual system to form a local identity. (2) They have decoded this system, and have adapted it for the present day, re-editing the rites to refine their ethnopole. These operations fuel the information organizing on the festival, and the people maintain the tradition as the manifestation of their life-practices.

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Based on the Babur Nama, this study will attempt to reconsider the Char Bag itself from the original functions and meanings of Babur's garden. The term "Char Bag" is denoted a particular type of Persian garden which has usually been interpreted as a rectangular walled garden quartered by two streams intersecting at right angles. However, it is not always clear that a different name for gardens indicates different structural forms, and the term does not fit into the usual definitions of the so-called Islamic garden. Since the term is open to interpretation, it seems to that scholars make effective use of the term whatever his interpretation. Thereupon, this study infers the Char Bag from their possible meaning of the garden that had been actually used in their life. In this context, it came out that the garden was setting for the nomadic encampment and was utilizing for his major territorial depot.

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We investigated foreign students' dietary habits, food and nutrition environment in their campus (N-campus), and the relationships between them. In June 2006, we conducted a questionnaire survey and a dietary record survey on 69 foreign students of N-university in Aichi pref., and surveyed cafeterias and shops in N campus as food and nutrition environment research. 1) Dietary habits of foreign students According to the dietary records, 35.1% of the foods were categorized as Shushoku, and 47.1% of Shushoku were prepared with oil. 2) Food and nutrition environment of N campus We checked 2,765 foods which were sold in N-campus during our investigation. 34.1% of them were categorized as Shushoku, and 34.1% of Shushoku were prepared with oil. 3) The relationships between dietary habits and food and nutrition environment Frequent users of cafeterias tended to eat the dishes prepared with oil. Frequent users of shops tended to eat single core dish. Moreover, both of the frequent users had negative attitude of food behaviors, although they were highly satisfied with their dietary habits.

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