Social Structural Changes and Responding Social Attitudes in Internationalizing Japan

在1992年至1994年期间，在大大阪地区进行了一系列调查，重点关注关西国际机场的建设和开放的社会进程。就大阪地区而言，虽然关西地区在技术上和经济上都存在诸多困难，但与东京都地区相比，民间有意推进的关西地区建设政策，在表达关西的政治和文化独特性方面还是相当积极的。这在一定程度上是一个不可避免的矛盾，因为所谓的“双目型国家建设”是为了反对“单极向东京集中”，到目前为止，任何一个商业团体、地方自治团体或委员会都没有成功地找到解决办法。这就是关西的自我建设政策不得不采取相当不稳定的“单回合”战斗形式的根本原因，这种形式经常被批评为国际博览会等“事件型项目的延续”。自1995年1月以来，该地区遭受了阪神-浅地大地震的严重影响，我们还需要进一步观察其影响的程度。说到其他方面，在其他国家以“更多国际合作”的方式向日本施压的压力下，日本社会越来越陷入一种令人困惑的局面，这一点已经变得越来越清楚。这一点有待进一步调查。

Under the title a series of surveys were done during 1992-94 in the Greater Osaka Area focusing on social processes of building and opening the Kansai International Airport.As for the Osaka area, the build-up policies of the Kansai District that have been promoted intentionally with private initiatives comparing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Area have been pretty positive in expressing Kansai's politically and culturally unique character despite of their various difficulties in running everything technically and economically. This is an inevitable contradiction to a certain degree as far as the so-called 'binocular type of national build-up' have had to be promoted opposing to the 'unipolar concentration to Tokyo' and so far any business group, local self-governing body or counsil among them has not been successful in finding a way to iron it out. This is the fundamental reason why Kansai's self build-up policies cannot but have taken rather unstable forms of 'single round' battles which have been often criticised as the 'continuation of event-typed projects' such as international expositions. Since in January, 1995 this region has suffered seriously from the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, we shall have to see more what kind of effect happening to what extent.Speaking of the rest, it has come to be clearer that the Japanese society has been getting into a more and more puzzling situation under pressures of other nations which have been pressing it in terms of 'more international cooperations'. This shall be investigated more.