Changes of rural, mountainous and depopulated areas and problems of regional policy in the age of restructuring.

通过目前的结构调整，在人口稀少的地区，如山区村庄和原煤矿地区，他们正在经历非常大的社会和经济变化。正是在这种情况下，我们的项目打算(1)研究区域政策，(2)总结这些地区目前的实际问题，(3)展望这些地区的变化方向和有效的政策。这个项目的所有成员已经召开了三次会议，互相交换了信息和建议。Kenji TSUTSUMI组织了这个项目，他在山区进行了研究，并有两次机会在国际会议上发表演讲。高桥Hidenori OKAHASHI在山区村庄进行了研究，并写了一篇关于山区区域政策的评论文章。西原俊有积极的机会在原煤矿区和工业衰败地区学习，他还写了一篇关于这些地区振兴的文章。Toshiaki NISHINO工作努力…更多关于日本的林业政策。他把河流流域作为重新发展那里衰败的工业——林业的地方。SEKIDO明子对北海道具有很高观光价值的农业景观进行了研究。金斗哲调查了日本国民政府各部门的政治体制。他还研究了艾萨哈亚湾周围的环境问题。我们的团队认为，在人口稀少的地区，日常生活和当地工业的区域功能非常重要。所以新意义下的社会关系和社会资本对那里的人们至关重要。可持续发展可以通过自我维持，也可以通过外部帮助（来自非营利组织或其他）。在不久的将来，国家区域政策也已改变为人口稀少地区自我维持的目的。但也有很多非常薄弱的社区和市政当局。因此，对他们的区域政策必须考虑到内部和外部的努力，以维持区域。本项目还建立了有关区域振兴和可持续发展的政策和项目数据库。少

Through the present time of restructuring, in depopulated regions such as mountainous villages and former coal mining regions, they are experiencing very big social and economic changes. Just under the situation our project intends (1) to examine regional policies, (2) to sum up the present actual problems in these areas, and (3) to prospect the direction of the changes and effective polices for them.All the members of this project have had meetings for three times and exchanged information and suggestion each other.Kenji TSUTSUMI organized this project and he researched in mountainous areas and had two opportunities of presentation at international conferences. Hidenori OKAHASHI researched in mountainous villages and wrote a review article about regional policy for mountainous areas. Jyun NISHIHARA had positive chances to study in the former coal mining regions and industry-decaying areas, and he also wrote an article about revitalization of such regions. Toshiaki NISHINO worked hard … More about policies for forestry in Japan. He makes much of fluvial basin areas for redeveloping the decaying industry there-forestry. Akiko SEKIDO researched about agricultural landscape, which has a high value for sightseeing in Hokkaido. And Doo-Chul KIM investigated political system of divisions of the national government of Japan. Also he researched the environmental issues around Isahaya Bay.Our team sees regional functions for daily living and local industry in depopulated areas very important. So social ties and social capital in the new meanings are vitally central for people there. And sustainable development there can be possible by the self sustaining and also by from the outer helps (of/from NPO's or so). In near future national regional policies also have been changed the purposes for depopulated areas self sustaining. But there are a lot of very weak communities and municipalities. Then the regional policies for them must be think much of inner and outer efforts to sustain the regions.Our project also has constructed database for policies and projects about such regions revitalization and sustainabilities. Less