This is a study on the way children viewed and treated as outsiders are included socially within combative sports dojo in Tokyo. The objective of this study is to analyze and reveal how combative sport dojo embrace "os-tracized" kids such as delinquent juvenile, the bullied, and truant students, empower them and help them return to social institutions such as schools and workplaces. Previous studies show that combative sports gyms play roles of social inclusion; however, few studies are done on the process of returning to the society. The viewpoint of "social inclusion," (from Ikemoto’s study in 2009) seems to be the only one that analyzes the people who have already been included in the society. This study focuses on children in need of social inclusion: how dojo motivation trans-forms them into someone who "fits" into schools or other social settings such as workplace or as professional ath-letes. The initial trigger for them was the desire to become strong, however this study reveals how that affects their full transformation. The methods used for this study are: instructing the kids in the dojo, doing extensive fieldwork as a resident counselor at schools in a specific region inside Tokyo from 2002 until March 2009; and as an advisor for the development of young people from then on until March 2017. The author has spent a great amount of time with the children in schools and dojo, and this has enabled him to capture the full picture of each child’s life, in-cluding their family backgrounds. A number of interviews were conducted not just with the children but also with the teachers and parents in order to prevent inevitable personal biases that arise from merely spending time with the children in one-on-one environment. In order to build a rapport with the kids, the author attended and partici-pated in the local events such as ‘mochi-tsuki’ (pounding boiled rice into soft, gelatinous cakes), harvesting bam-boo shoots, fireworks and other festivals.
　　There are a total of over 200 children attending the dojo in a span of 12 years, there has been a wide variety of races, cultures, and individual personalities, ranging from hyper to lethargic with each of them having their own reasons to visit the dojo. The author analyzes these personality types and notes their traits respectively within the research document. For example, children that have hyper personalities are usually the ones labeled as "delinquent" and they have a high possibility of becoming involved in violence. Children who are lethargic and labeled as dis-interested or under achievers, on the other hand, were often the bullied and are generally truant students. Most of the hyper children saw the strength in combative sports as strength in physical fights, and this was the most com-mon initial reason that they attended the dojo to begin with: They aspired for superiority in physical fights through training in the dojo. Their aspirations for strength were varied, ultimately boiling down to be respected and over-coming an inferiority complex, professional athletes, or simply recognized as a cultural view of masculine. Many of them displayed exhibitionistic tendencies and it was found over the span of time with them that this was due to an attraction to heroic figures, especially those of combative athletes. However, while there were several success- it should be noted that some of the "hyper" personality type children voluntarily refused to be included in the dojo and they chose to leave. The children viewed as lethargic, on the other hand, learned to be patient and to be easy-going with small trifles and not to panic and shut down. Seemingly, they were also encouraged by watching their peers become strong by training in combative sports.
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The production of ethanol has been increasing for these 10 years in the United States because the federal government implements the agricultural policy promoting high value-added agricultural products and the domestic consumption of ethanol is expanding due to its cleanness to the environment. For the US which is the strongest agricultural exporter in the world, it is an urgent need to create new high value-added agricultural products in order to establish employments in the rural area and compete against new agricultural exporting countries like Brazil and Argentine in the international grain market, like corn because the US has been losing its market share in the corn bulk market. For that purpose, ethanol can be a very good example. The ethanol production is concentrating on the so-called Corn-belt area like Iowa and Minnesota. In the State of Minnesota, groups of farmers are strongly involved in the production of ethanol and many of them are called “New Generation Cooperative that has a closed-membership system and pursues high value-added agricultural products. In the State of Minnesota, ethanol manufacturers, which are most1y New Generation Cooperatives, have created about 4,000 employments for these 10years because of uniqueness of the cooperative and the support by the state governments. Therefore, the rural development based on the ethanol production by New Generation Cooperative is a key to success for revitalization of the rural economy and international competitiveness in the international corn market.

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