Chiburi, one of the Okinoshimas, covers about 13km
2, and lies some 40km north of the Shimane Peninsula. This small island is lived in by 1, 214 people (1970), the inhabitants shows dden decrease since 1955 (2138 people), and the percentage of old age people has remarkably increased.
In four villages among seven villages in all on the island dependent on agriculture and fishery inhabitants decreased between 1965 and 1970. It is cauesd by emigration. Young people left their villages for new jobs and old age people women remain to support their farms, while the villages have lost fishing labourers. therefore, farming is the principal occupation today, but it is not industrialized. In the farming as a principal occupation, in general, products are produced in a commercial basis. However, products of these four villages are mainly selfsufficient and cultivated for poor cash income. The writer calls this type poor agriculture as principal occupation the specialized farming of the depopulated are.
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