Studies on the Revitalization Policies in Aging Community

越来越多的农渔村和地方社区受到低生育率和人口快速老龄化的困扰。此外，由于其经济结构，它们受到经济衰退的严重打击。为了解决这些问题，紧急制定振兴这些社区的计划至关重要。既然日本已经开始了政府分权的进程，社会需要澄清每个社区试图建立和维持什么样的身份。在我们为寻找社区认同形成过程所做的几项研究中，这里选择并报告了两个案例研究。此外，对社区间社会流动态度的调查结果。其中一项研究的重点是熊本县的一个渔村。研究表明，对传统文化的重新评价和利用有助于形成社区认同，提高社区成员的士气，并通过吸引人们到社区来产生经济效应。研究表明，通过这些项目，老年人的社会活动正在得到振兴。第二项研究集中在奈良县的一个多山的小村庄。在“信息革命”的背景下，重新考虑战后国家基础设施发展和区域政策的影响。指出了在社区老年人群中引入多媒体设备可能带来的一些问题。通过对30多岁人群的经历进行分析，讨论了他们在10 ~ 20多岁时在社区间的流动性和生活植物的不稳定性。研究表明，未来当地社区将会有更多不同的人进出社区。

An increasing number of farming and fishing villages as well as small local communities have been suffering from low fertility rate and rapid aging of the population. Moreover, they are hard hit by recession due to their economic structure. To address these problems it is of vital importance to urgently form programs for revitalizing these communities.Now that the process of decentralization of the government is already under way in Japan, it is socially needed to clarify what kind of identity each community tries to establish and maintain. Of several studies we have made to find the processes of the formation of the community identity, two case studies are selected and reported here. In addition , result of the survey on the attitudes towards social mobility between communities.1. One research focuses on a fishing town in Kumamoto Prefecture. It shows that the revaluation and utilization of the traditional cultures contribute to form the community identity, enhance their morale as a community member, and bring about an economic effect by attracting people to the community. And the study shows that social activities among the elderly people are being revitalized through the programs.2. The second research focuses on a mountainous small village in Nara Prefecture. The effect of the postwar national development of infrastructure and regional policies are reconsidered in the context of the "information revolution". It points out some problem that the revolution might bring about through the introduction of multi-media equipment among the aging population in the community.3. Through analyses of experiences of people in the their 30s, their mobility among communities when they were in their 10s to 20s and the instability of their life plants are discussed. The study shows that local communities will take on mobility more various people coming in and out of the community in the future.