Social Structural Changes and Responding Social Attitudes in Internationalizing Japan

以此为题，1992年至1994年在大大阪地区进行了一系列调查，重点关注关西国际机场建设和开放的社会过程。至于大阪地区，关西区的建设政策与东京都相比，在私人倡议的有意推动下，在表现关西的政治和文化独特性方面相当积极，尽管它们在技术和经济上都存在各种困难。这在某种程度上是一个不可避免的矛盾，因为必须推动所谓的“双目国家集结”，反对“单极集中到东京”，而到目前为止，他们中的任何一个商业团体、地方自治机构或律师都没有成功地找到解决这个问题的方法。这就是关西的自我建设政策不能不采取相当不稳定的“单回合”斗争形式的根本原因，这种战斗经常被批评为“事件类型项目的延续”，比如国际博览会。自1995年1月以来，这一地区遭受了阪神-Awaji地震的严重影响，我们还需要更多地观察发生了什么样的影响。说到其他方面，越来越明显的是，在其他国家的压力下，日本社会正陷入越来越令人困惑的境地，这些国家一直在敦促日本进行更多的国际合作。这一点应该得到更多的调查。

Under the title a series of surveys were done during 1992-94 in the Greater Osaka Area focusing on social processes of building and opening the Kansai International Airport.As for the Osaka area, the build-up policies of the Kansai District that have been promoted intentionally with private initiatives comparing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Area have been pretty positive in expressing Kansai's politically and culturally unique character despite of their various difficulties in running everything technically and economically. This is an inevitable contradiction to a certain degree as far as the so-called 'binocular type of national build-up' have had to be promoted opposing to the 'unipolar concentration to Tokyo' and so far any business group, local self-governing body or counsil among them has not been successful in finding a way to iron it out. This is the fundamental reason why Kansai's self build-up policies cannot but have taken rather unstable forms of 'single round' battles which have been often criticised as the 'continuation of event-typed projects' such as international expositions. Since in January, 1995 this region has suffered seriously from the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, we shall have to see more what kind of effect happening to what extent.Speaking of the rest, it has come to be clearer that the Japanese society has been getting into a more and more puzzling situation under pressures of other nations which have been pressing it in terms of 'more international cooperations'. This shall be investigated more.