THE EMPIRICAL STUDY ON ISSUES OF INTERMARRIAGE AND SOCIAL INCILUSION IN TOHOKU AREA

近年来，“异族通婚”的比例显著上升；到2000年，这一比例已经从1980年的1%上升到了4.5%。有趣的是，这些婚姻中有70%是由日本男人和外国女人组成的。到20世纪90年代，这种趋势已经被认为是落后的，特别是在东北地区（山形县Mogami）。本研究验证了三点：1。农区社会人口的配偶选择因子。2. 政府部门的“通婚”问题。3. 对外籍配偶作为公民的支持和问题。首先，未婚人口持续存在缺口。当男性面临“父权制”时，20多岁的年轻女性可能会放弃农业领域。政府试图解决这个问题，然而，有一些批评隐私和一些特殊的问题与调解员。尽管如此，政府仍计划通过组织语言课程和其他一些方式，努力支持这些外国配偶，在这种情况下主要是外国妻子。此外，政府还计划为他们的子女提供保健和育儿服务，使其融入社会。此外，政府的目标是建立“多元文化社区”，让这些外籍配偶在这个社会中独立生活。

The ratio of "Intermarriages" have significantly increased recently; it has become 4.5 % by 2000, which was only 1 % in 1980. Interestingly, 70 % of those marriages are composed of Japanese men and foreign women. This tendency had already been regarded ackward especially in Tohoku area (Mogami, Yamagata Prefecture) by 1990's.This research verifies three points: 1. The mate-selection factor of social population in agrarian area. 2. The issue of "Intermarriage" in administrations. 3. The support and the issue for foreign-mates as citizens.First, there is a constant gap of unmarried population. While men are confronted by the "patriarchy", young women in 20's are likely to abandon the agrarian area. Administrations have tried to solve this issue, however, there are some criticism of privacy and some peculiar problems with mediators.Nevertheless, administrations still plan to make efforts to support those foreign-spouses, mostly foreign wives in this case, by organizing language lessons and some others. Also for their children, administrations plan to give them health and child care to include in the society. Moreover, the administrations have targeted to build "multicultural community" for those foreign-spouses to live independently in this society.