The importance of management entities in organizations has become increasingly apparent. The rapid increase in the number of Community-Based Farm Cooperatives (CBFCs) was predicted in the 2010 Agricultural Census, but no further measures were taken to directly confirm it. Using matching data from a survey of CBFCs conducted for the first time in the 2015 Agricultural Census, we revealed the actual condition of CBFCs in this study. Specifically, in addition to conventional corporations and non-corporations, we clarified the characteristics of CBFCs and analyzed the internal structures of their management entities by focusing on management resources.

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In this study, we aimed to clarify the characteristics of agricultural structural change and regional characteristics on the basis of the 2015 census while focusing on land use. We found that sales farmer reduction rate increased whereas farmland reduction rate tended to be slow. However, there was regionality. In areas where the number of large-scale sales farmers increased markedly, farmland accumulation by them progressed. On the other hand, in areas where they barely increased, farmland accumulation by farming groups advanced.

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In this study, we analyzed the characteristics of family farm management and agricultural labor force from the perspective of family structure based on the 2005 to 2015 Census of Agriculture and Forestry. Our results are summarized into five points, as follows. First, regarding the family structure of farmers, the number of three-generation households has decreased drastically in all areas, whereas the number of single-generation households has increased. Second, multi-generation household farmers own a large proportion of leased farmland. It became clear that the behavior of farmers lending farmland is closely related to the family structure of farmers. Third, there is no relationship between the family structure of farmers and leasing behavior of farmland. From 2010 to 2015, except for some areas such as Hokkaido, farmers are leasing farmland regardless of family structure. Fourth, the number of family farms with medium-sized agricultural labor force has markedly decreased from 2010 to 2015. One reason is that due to the aging of household members, the number of three-generation family farms has decreased. Fifth, since 2005, the number of employed full-time workers has increased. Employment labor force in Hokkaido accounts for more than 20% of the total labor force. Training human resources to work in farms is important in agricultural management.

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We investigated rural migrant workers in the production departments of two Japanese-capital enterprises, one Taiwanese-capital enterprise, and one local private enterprise located at Pearl River Delta, China. The two foreign-capital enterprises moved their production departments to the Pearl River Delta because they required only cheap labor force and not skilled labor. The seniority-based wage system hardly existed in the foreign-capital enterprises.

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