Legal-sociological Research on Local Self-governing Organization-JICHI-KAI,CHONAI-KAI,BURAKU-KAI

本研究的目的是研究日本的政府结构和民主，通过明确基层民主的局限性，以冲绳地方自治机构为研究材料，得到一些地方自治和分权的建议。今年我们继续收集资料，并进行了实地调查，作为对去年调查的补充。我们有时会开会讨论听证会调查。并进行报告和合作研究。特别是今年，由于冲绳的自治团体与其他郡县的自治团体不同，有必要明确冲绳自治团体的历史、功能和形式，因此扩大了研究范围，对各地方自治团体进行了批判。以公馆为例，研究了公馆在民主教育中所扮演的重要角色。我们还研究了政府工作的信任体系，在城市和自治机构之间的关系。我们还对土地关联集团的审批现状进行了研究。我们可以说，根据我们的调查，与其他地方自治组织的统一性相比，冲绳的自治机构具有很大的多样性。我们非常肯定地说，多样性与当地的个人特征有关。我们发现，冲绳对当前的需求做出了回应。冲绳是提供极好的研究材料的地方。

The objectives of this research is to study Japanese governmental sturucture and democracy, by making the limit of grass roots democracy clear, using the local self-gonerning bodies on Okinawa as resarch materials, and to get some suggestions for local self-government and decentralization.This year we kept collecting materials and made field survey as supplementary investigation for last year. We sometimes had a meeting for discussing the hearing investigation. and made reports and cooperative research. Especially this year, we expanded our research sphere and digged our critical mind for each local self-governing organization, under the common recognition that it is important to make the history, the function and the form of self-governing bodies in Okinawa clear, because the self-governing bodies of Okinawa are different from those of other prefectures.Taking KOMINKAN (public hall) as a example of self-governing body, we studied the role of KOMINKAN which has substantial side of democratic education. And also we studied the trust system of governmental work, in the relationship between cities and self-governing bodies. We also studied the present state of the approval for land connected groups.We could say that, as a consequence of our investigation, self-governing bodies in Okinawa have big diversity compared with the uniformity of other local self-governing organization. We are pretty sure to say the diversity related to a individual charactor of a local area. We found that Okinawa responded to a demand for the present days. and Okinawa is the place which offers wonderful research materials.