Characteristics of Social Change in Tohoku District and the Roll of Civic Activities in Transition

随着日本社会全球化进程的加快和人口老龄化进程的加快，外国人的数量也在不断增加。对于东北地区的社区来说，与日本人进行国际婚姻的人和作为新角落的外国工人开始居住，除了在日本的韩国少数民族，也就是所谓的旧角落。他们历史社会条件的不同反映在城市的种族等构成上。本研究的结果是：在实证调查的基础上，日裔巴西人如何作为一种不可或缺的劳动力融入当地的劳动力市场；外国人和老年人是如何随着年龄、种族和性别而被隔离和排斥的；公民活动团体在社区中被排除在外的重要性。

The number of foreigners increases with the progress of the globalization in the Japan society and progress of population aging rapidly. As for the community of the Tohoku district as well, the person who did an international marriage with the Japanese, and a foreigner worker as new corner begin to live in addition to the Korean minority in Japan who is so-called old corner. A difference in their historical social condition reflects on the composition like the race of the city. They are settling as denizen in the Japanese society.The results of this research are the following contents :■how the Japanese Brazilians are involved as a manpower which it is indispensable to in the labor market of area, based on the empirical investigation.■how foreigners and the aged are segregated and excluded following age, ethnicity and sex.■How important roll play civic activity groups to include the excluded in the community.