Comparative studies on the corporatization under socio-economic changes in Japan and Poland

1990年和1991年，主要来自北海道大学的日本研究小组在接受蒙布苏国际科学研究基金资助的情况下，访问了波兰中部科宁县Kleczew村的Kamionka村。我们在这个村庄呆了大约80天，可以会见卡米昂卡地区的所有居民；即23户家庭。通过直接采访这些农民，通常需要5个多小时，我们可以绘制家谱和家家户户的田野地图。在农业经济学领域，我们也许是第一个来自维尔斯特恩国家的研究人员，可以对一个“社会主义国家”的一个村庄的所有居民进行访谈，而且可以对农业合作社等各种农业机构的管理者进行多次访谈。从我们对波兰村庄的研究可以得出结论：波兰农村社会是一个非常传统的社会，其中血缘和家庭起着最重要的作用，政治因素和经济因素次之。在社会主义国家经济改革的过程中，我们不能忘记这些事实，也不能忽视东方社会的传统因素。在我们的项目中，日方邀请波兰学者到日本，以展示北海道农业的真实情况。波兰学者在北海道的村庄停留了40多天，并与日本农民进行了15次访谈。像在波兰一样，面试的平均时间超过4个小时。他们还可以参观日本农村社会的各种机构。对波兰学者来说，在日本的研究结果对思考波兰市场经济中的新农业政策非常有用。我们项目的最终报告将于1993年由东京的Bokutakusha出版社以日语出版。

In 1990 and 1991, receiving a Grant under the Monbusho International Scientific Research, the Japanese research team, mainly from the University of Hokkaido, visited a Polish village ; Kamionka district of Kleczew village of Konin prefecture in central Poland. We stayed at this village about 80 days and could meet with all inhabitants of the Kamionka district ; i. e. 23 households. Through direct interviews with these farmers, which were usually more than 5 hours, we could draw a family tree and a field map at every home. In the field of agricultural economics, perhaps, we are the first researcher from the Werstern countries which can hold an interview with all inhabitants of one village in a "socialist country", Moreover we could hold many interviews with managers of various agricultural institutions, such as agricultural cooperatives.From our research on the Polish village, we can conclude, that the Polish rural society is a very traditional society, and there blood relation and family plays the most important role : the political factors and the economical factors are less important. In the course of economic reform of socialist countries we can not forget these facts and can not neglect the traditional factors in the Eastern society. .In our project the Japanese side invited the Polish scholars to Japan in order to show the real fact of the Hokkaido's agriculture. The Polish scholars stayed at Hokkaido's villages more than 40 days and could hold 15 interviews with the Japanese farmers. Like as in Poland, the average time of interview was more than 4 hours. Also they could visit various institutions in the Japanese rural society. For the Polish scholars the results from the research in Japan are very useful in thinking out new agricultural policies in the Polish market-economy.The final report of our project will be published in Japanese language from the Bokutakusha publishers, Tokyo, in 1993.