A Study on the Improvement Program of Densely Settled Area of Foreign Residents

本研究的目的是明确在日本外国人居住密集的居住区的改善计划的主题。我们特别分析了在日本居住了70年的韩国人的密集居住地区。发现以下三个主题：第一，从居住环境的角度来看，朝鲜人密集居住的棚户区仍然存在问题。寮屋问题并不被视为一般问题，而是一个特殊问题，因此，这个问题不受一般行政方案的管制。其次，我们调查了一个改进项目实际执行的区域，以找到项目的一般主题。在这一地区，韩国人的住房占有率高于日本人。外国人并不总是区域共同体中的弱势群体，而是改善和维持居住环境的潜在力量。第三，大坂市是韩国人最密集的地区。我们对大坂市的城市基础设施进行了调查，以明确大坂市最密集的地区是自1919年以来实施鹤桥耕地调整计划的地区。这个地区仍然是人口高度密集的地区。我们特别调查了位于鹤桥地区的一条名为“KOREA TOWN”的商店街。我们发现年轻的业主和新来的人建议改善街道环境的计划，并试图提出他们的民族身份是繁荣。

This study aims to clarify the subjets on the improvement program of residential areas in which foreign residents densely settled down in Japan. We specially analyze the densely settled areas of Koreans who stay in Japan for seventy years as settlesrs. The following three subjects are found ;Firstly, from the view point of the residential environment, problems remain of the squatter areas in which Koreans densely settled down. Squatters are not regarded as a general problem but a special problem so that the problem is not subject to general administrative program. This causes haphazard replies on this problem.Secondly, we surveyed the area in which an improvenment program is actually being executed to find the general subject of programs. The ratio of occupied housing of Koreans in this area are higher than that of Japanese. The foreign residents are not always a weaker section of regional community but a potential part to improve and maintain the settlement environments.Thirdly, The most densely settled area of Koreans is Osaka city. We surveyed the Osaka city in terms of urban infrastructures to clarify that the most densely part in Osaka city is the area in which the Tsuruhashi readjustment program of arable land is executed since 1919. This area still remains of high density of population. We specially surveyed a shopped street named 'KOREA TOWN' which is located in the Tsuruhashi area. We found that younger owners and newer comers suggested an improvement program of street environment and tried to present their ethnic identity to be prosperous.