Comparative study on Changes of rural Canada and Japan under the economic growth and globalization

2000年，我们启动了乡村振兴政策措施建议项目。我们于2004年3月完成了该项目，主要活动和观察结果如下。主要活动：日本研究人员每年都参加加拿大的春季研讨会。我们在加拿大和日本进行了实地调查。日本人每年在加拿大参加秋季会议，加拿大人每年都参加东京会议。我们在2002年和2003年分别从日本和加拿大交换了农村领导人。我们发表了一份关于经济增长和全球化背景下加拿大和日本农村变化的比较研究报告两国的两个实地调查地点：加拿大魁北克的圣达摩斯和加拿大的安大略省特威德，？木的河野町，以及日本福岛的饭馆村。通过比较研究的主要学术成果：在日本，1950年后日本农村经济的快速发展造成了压力。二战前，日本农村完全处于传统经济社会之下。两国的乡村治理都在改革之中，都对通过志愿者活动实现振兴寄予厚望。在日本农村，人们正在思考通过重组当地资产来振兴乡村，而在加拿大农村，人们正在寻找独立于当地资产的道路。

We started the project to make proposal for policy measures for rural revitalization in 2000. We finished the project in March 2004, and our main activities and observations are as follows.Main activities:Japanese researchers participated in Spring Workshop in Canada in every years. We had field surveys in Canada and Japan. Japanese participated in Autumn Conference in Canada and Canadian participated in Tokyo Conference every years. We exchanged rural leaders in 2002 from Japan and in 2003 from Canada. We printed a report on Comparative study on Changes of rural Canada and Japan under the economic growth and globalizationTwo field survey sites in the both countries:St. Damase, Quebec, and Tweed, Ontario in CanadaAwano-machi, Tochigi, and Iitate-mura, Fukushima in JapanMain academic results through the comparative studies:In Japan there are strains because of rapid economic development in rural Japan after 1950. Before the World War II, rural Japan was completely under the traditional economy and society. In both countries the Rural governance are under restructuring, and there are big expectation to revitalization through Volunteer activities. In rural Japan people are thinking rural revitalization through reorganizing local assets, on the contrary in rural Canada people are searching the way independent to local assets.