A STUDY ON THE PROCESS OF SETTLEMENT VANISHUMENT IN THE INTERMEDIATE AND MOUNTAINIOUS AREA IN THE VIEW POINT OF SPATIAL MANAGEMENT

上学期，我们在加治屋KAMASAWA定居点进行了采访调查。本学期，我们在长野县加美甲米村的下组定居点进行了访谈调查。作为补充，我们在千叶县高川市的双宫町，福岛县北原村的日原，西乡谷，大坂谷，吉沼，大帆町的大须那，茨城县。调查内容包括居民属性特征、空置房发生年份、空置房发生情况、空置房业主新住址、空置房管理情况、农田情况、空置房业主与居民关系等。本研究的目的是从1）农户迁移的现状和历史，2）空置房屋和农田的管理现状和管理者的属性来阐明中部和山区的人口减少问题。主要结果如下：1）由于家庭成员，包括后代和移民家庭，即使居住在很远的地方，也希望管理他们的空置房屋，因此管理水平有代代相传的趋势：2）有将农田委托给近亲以外的人管理甚至出售的趋势; 3）管理者的典型属性是：i）居住在定居点的亲戚或邻居（包括无关人员），以及ii）通常居住在同一个或相邻城市的移民，后代或相关家庭（主要是血亲）。研究证实了后者在空置房管理中的重要性，前者在农田管理中的重要性。研究结果表明，需要某种形式的支持，如参与空置房屋和农田管理的人员建立网络。

Last term, we did interview surveys in KAJIYA KAMASAWA settlement. In this term, we did interview survey in SHIMOGURI settlement, KAMI village NAGANO prefecture. Complementary, we did in FUTOMIHAMA in KAMOGAWA city, CHIBA PRECFECTURE, HIBARA in KITASHIOBARA village, FUKUSHIMA prefecture, NISHIGOYA, OSAGOYA, YOSHINUMA, OOSUNA in OUHO TOWN, IBARAGIPREFECTURE. Survey contents are consist of attributive character of residents, the outbreak years of vacant houses, out break conditions new address of vacant house owners, conditions of vacant house management, conditions of farm fields, relation ship between vacant house owners and residents. The purpose of this study is to clarify the depopulation issue in intermediate and mountainous areas from the perspectives of 1) the status and history of emigration of farming households, and 2) the management status of vacant houses and farm fields and the attributes of managers. The main results were as follows: 1) since family members, including descendent and emigrated households, wanted to manage their vacant houses even if they live far away, the level of management tended to decline over successive generations; 2) there was a tendency to consign the management of, or to even sell off, farm fields to people other than close blood relatives; 3) the typical attributes of a manager were i) a relative or neighbor residing in the settlement (including unrelated persons), and ii) an emigrated, descendent, or related household residing typically in the same or adjacent municipality (mainly blood relatives). The study confirmed that the latter was important in vacant house management, and the former was important in farm field management. The results suggest that some form of support is desirable, such as the networking of people involved in the management of vacant houses and farm fields.