Comparative Study on Depopulated Areas in Japan and South Korea under Neoliberali Neoliberalism: Focusing on Policies and Self-organization

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For the last three years, the author have conducted the fieldworks in Japan and South Korea, where rural development policies have oriented to Neoliberalism. The main interests of this study lies on how self-organization in depopulated rural areas have changed under Neoliberal policies. In South Korea, Maul, a fundamental organization in rural areas have undertaken administrative agglomeration in terms of organizing principal and decision making processes as well. In the case of Japan, however, the local government initiated a restructuring process of self-organization, which has led to the newly established local government transferring certain responsibilities, to the local community.