Changes of rural, mountainous and depopulated areas and problems of regional policy in the age of restructuring.

通过目前的结构调整，在人口稀少的地区，如山区和前煤矿区，他们正在经历非常大的社会和经济变化。正是在这种情况下，我们的项目打算（1）审查区域政策，（2）总结这些地区目前的实际问题，以及（3）为了前景变化的方向和有效的政策，该项目的所有成员已经召开了三次会议，相互交换信息和建议。在国际会议上发言的机会。冈桥秀织在山区村庄进行了调查，并撰写了关于山区地区政策的评论文章。西原俊在以前的煤矿区和工业衰退区有良好的学习机会，他还写了一篇关于振兴这些地区的文章。西野俊明努力工作 ...更多信息 日本的林业政策。他重视河流流域地区，以便重新发展那里正在衰退的工业--林业。关户昭子研究了在北海道具有很高观光价值的农业景观。金斗哲调查了日本国民政府的政治体制。他还研究了伊沙亚湾周围的环境问题。我们的团队认为，在人口稀少的地区，日常生活和当地工业的区域功能非常重要。因此，新意义上的社会关系和社会资本对那里的人们来说至关重要。那里的可持续发展可以通过自我维持和外部帮助（NPO的或其他的）来实现。在不久的将来，国家的区域政策也发生了变化，目的是使人口减少的地区自我维持。但是有很多非常薄弱的社区和市政当局。因此，针对这些地区的区域政策必须考虑到这些地区的内部和外部努力，以维持这些地区的发展。我们的项目还建立了有关这些地区振兴和可持续发展的政策和项目数据库。少

Through the present time of restructuring, in depopulated regions such as mountainous villages and former coal mining regions, they are experiencing very big social and economic changes. Just under the situation our project intends (1) to examine regional policies, (2) to sum up the present actual problems in these areas, and (3) to prospect the direction of the changes and effective polices for them.All the members of this project have had meetings for three times and exchanged information and suggestion each other.Kenji TSUTSUMI organized this project and he researched in mountainous areas and had two opportunities of presentation at international conferences. Hidenori OKAHASHI researched in mountainous villages and wrote a review article about regional policy for mountainous areas. Jyun NISHIHARA had positive chances to study in the former coal mining regions and industry-decaying areas, and he also wrote an article about revitalization of such regions. Toshiaki NISHINO worked hard … More about policies for forestry in Japan. He makes much of fluvial basin areas for redeveloping the decaying industry there-forestry. Akiko SEKIDO researched about agricultural landscape, which has a high value for sightseeing in Hokkaido. And Doo-Chul KIM investigated political system of divisions of the national government of Japan. Also he researched the environmental issues around Isahaya Bay.Our team sees regional functions for daily living and local industry in depopulated areas very important. So social ties and social capital in the new meanings are vitally central for people there. And sustainable development there can be possible by the self sustaining and also by from the outer helps (of/from NPO's or so). In near future national regional policies also have been changed the purposes for depopulated areas self sustaining. But there are a lot of very weak communities and municipalities. Then the regional policies for them must be think much of inner and outer efforts to sustain the regions.Our project also has constructed database for policies and projects about such regions revitalization and sustainabilities. Less