This study aims to influence of Agriculture-Fishery Road improvement on regional environment in whole agricultural region of Korea. First, we grasp actual condition and historical flow about road improvement in agricultural region of Korea. Secondly, we carry out Factor Analysis to check relationship between rate of Agriculture-Fishery Road and regional environment. Finally, we examine that improvement of Agriculture-Fishery Road has influence on region by divide agricultural region into groups used Cluster Analysis. Therefore, we clarify that consideration of regionality is necessary to improvement of Agriculture-Fishery Road for development of agricultural region with agricultural promotion.

The City of Hilo, a tsunami-prone city in Hawaii, received devastating damage twice in the twentieth century, by the 1946 Aleutian Tsunami and the 1960 Chilean Tsunami. After the two tsunamis, the affected residential districts along Hilo Bay were changed into attractive public open areas, including parks, parking space, athletic fields, and golf course, under Kaikoo Project, an urban renewal plan to mitigate future tsunami damage in Hilo. This paper presents what happened after tsunamis and how the physical environment, according to the 1940 master plan and the Kaikoo Project, had been changed through experiences of tsunamis since the early twentieth century. Also it introduces recent situation of the city as of May 2010, the year of the fiftieth Anniversary of the 1960 Chilean Tsunami.

"Silver Housing(SH)"has been promoted by the Naha City government office, Okinawa prefecture recently.This study was aimed at investigating the actual situation of SH,the present conditions and the problems of Life Support Advisers(LSAs)of SH,and welfare institution consisting of multiple building,built on the same property (hereinafter"adjacent welfare institution").As a result of this study,it was found that the resident senior citizens of SH live in SH in contentment with the support of LSAs,and live in peace with the service of the adjacent welfare institution.In particular,it can be found that the specialty of LSAs and the diversity of welfare facilities have been playing important roles in current SH.With the development of the aged society in Japan,the reinforcement of the support system for SH users will be the next research subject.

In recent years, as more people recognize the importance of preserving townscape particularly a traditional main street<br>with historical characteristics, the movement of historic main street preservation has gained a momentum throughout the<br>nation. However, only a handful of those have been preserved and dozens of others are disappearing by multiple factors.<br>Yokosuka-kaido district, which is located in Osuka region of KakegawaCity, is one of successful cases of historic<br>preservation and its preservation effort is achieved by two reasons: great respect of deity and the city planning process by local residence. In reality, however, the component of the main street in this district is slowly diminished. This paper reveals the relationship between townscape of Yokosuka-kaido and festivals, examines townscape preservation and city planning process by local residence, and considers appropriate approaches to deal with historic main street preservation.

The American total population continues increasing, but there are some cities where population is decreasing, and there are some places performing an original policy to deal with problems such as the increase of the vacant houses. This research investigated cities that have original policy. We visited two cities; Flint, Michigan and Youngstown, Ohio in U.S.A. 1) In Flint, they have a policy to be called [Land Bank]. Before the property whose owner cannot pay property tax passes to the hand of real estate speculators, Land Bank tries to own it. Because Land Bank manages vacant houses, control of the abandoned places is enabled. 2) In Youngstown, they have a master plan to be called [Youngstown 2010]. It is a reduction type city planning, and it is being tried to carry out.

The present study analyzed the situation of the occurrence of the cold air current in the residential quarter in the urban area that was adjacent to the large-scale hill green space with aimed to examine the easing strategy of the city heat by the observation investigation. In addition, relativity with spatial data each observation point temperature, a green distance, the vertical interval, and peripheral was analyzed.

It is argued from various angles for directionality of the road maintenance after change of government of last September in the Diet in our country. This study is questionnaire survey to investigate what the nation expects for road maintenance truly. About 2,000 votes were distributed proportionally with population in each prefecture by WEB Questionnaire Technique, and it was carried out in an every prefecture. It is a basic document thinking about expecting for Road Maintenance in the future and whether you are necessary, when we heard an opinion about The No Charge of The Highway and a demand, dissatisfaction, an opinion.

In late years consciousness for the health of a nation rose. A lot of goods to become healthy are developed, and, as for the fitness boom, it is overheated more and more. The environment that surrounded the cigarette changed very much. A smoking place, a nonsmoking restaurant, prohibition of the smoking on the road. We think about the future and the present situation of "the smoking place".

Various environmental problems happen now on the earth. Every country in the world is working for the solution. However, the natural disaster attacks us by force. We took it as a matter of course till now. Under the technology and the civilization that developed highly, we must minimize a natural menace. The Arakawa lock gate is near to us. However, we do not pay attention to this very much. So I mention the history and utility and a future ideal method.

European Landscape Convention (ELC) is a first international legal instrument exclusively devoted to Landscape matters and since its adoption on 2000, 30 countries ratified and 7 countries signed in the Council of Europe's member states. The aims of this convention are to realize the role and values of European Landscape as a common heritage and to protect, management and planning of these Landscapes. In 2008, National Land Use Planning in Japan introduced the word of Landscape as a important concept to determine Beauty of National Territory. Although the word originally came from the European Landscape Convention, in Japan, only a few papers introduced and analyzed the contents and meaning of ELC, which is including author's recent paper. Then, this paper is attempted to analyze the social significance and definition of a Landscape of the ELC. After that a few suggestions about National Land Use Planning in Japan are delivered.