The achievements of the special law to revitalize the former coal mining regions and the current socio-economic situations of people

本项目考察了日本国家和地方政府振兴原煤矿区的政策成果。通过对人口和工业设施资料的分析，发现近35年来原煤矿区各市之间存在较大的区域差异。在主要依赖煤矿工业的地区，尽管在国家和地方政府的帮助下，市政当局在工业基础设施的重组方面取得了很大进展，但从地方财政和人民社会经济状况的角度来看，它们还没有从损失中恢复过来。笔者通过对这些地级市领导的问卷调查和访谈研究发现，由于煤矿地区和煤矿工人的特点，影响这些地级市振兴的特殊因素。通过设立工厂而新创造的工作岗位工资很低。几年来，相当大比例的已建工厂从以前的煤矿区撤出。但是，其他以前的煤矿市几乎同样从煤矿关闭的影响中恢复过来。

In this project, the achievements of the Japanese national and municipal governments' policies to revitalize the former coal mining regions have been investigated.Based on the analysis of the documents on population and industrial establishments, there could be found out that large regional differences occurred among the municipalities of former coal mining regions for last 35 years. In the regions which had largely depended on the coal mining industry, though the municipality made a great progress in the reorganization of industrial infrastructure helped by the national and prefectural governments, they have not recovered from their damages, from the viewpoint of local public finance and the socio-economic situations of people.According to the authors postal questionnaire survey and interview researches to the officials of those municipalities, the special factors which attributed to the characteristics of coal mining regions and coal miners interfered their revitalization. The jobs which were newly created through the installing of factories are low waged. Pretty large percentage of installed factories quitted from the former coal mining regions in several years.However, other former coal mining municipalities have recovered from their influences of shut down of mines almost as same as other municipalities.