THE EMPIRICAL STUDY ON ISSUES OF INTERMARRIAGE AND SOCIAL INCILUSION IN TOHOKU AREA

最近，“异族通婚”的比例显著增加，到2000年已达到4.5%，而1980年仅为1%。有趣的是，这些婚姻中有70%是由日本男性和外国女性组成的。这种趋势到90年代已经被认为是严重的，特别是在东北地区（山形县最上）。农区社会人口的择偶因素。2.行政部门中的“异族通婚”问题。3.对外籍配偶作为公民的支持和问题。首先，未婚人口的缺口持续存在。当男性面临“父权制”时，20多岁的年轻女性可能会放弃农业领域。政府已经试图解决这个问题，然而，有一些批评的隐私和一些特殊的问题，与调解员，尽管如此，政府仍然计划作出努力，以支持这些外国配偶，主要是外国妻子在这种情况下，通过组织语言课程和其他一些。同样对于他们的孩子，政府计划为他们提供健康和儿童保育，使他们融入社会。此外，政府的目标是建立“多元文化社区”，让这些外国配偶在这个社会中独立生活。

The ratio of "Intermarriages" have significantly increased recently; it has become 4.5 % by 2000, which was only 1 % in 1980. Interestingly, 70 % of those marriages are composed of Japanese men and foreign women. This tendency had already been regarded ackward especially in Tohoku area (Mogami, Yamagata Prefecture) by 1990's.This research verifies three points: 1. The mate-selection factor of social population in agrarian area. 2. The issue of "Intermarriage" in administrations. 3. The support and the issue for foreign-mates as citizens.First, there is a constant gap of unmarried population. While men are confronted by the "patriarchy", young women in 20's are likely to abandon the agrarian area. Administrations have tried to solve this issue, however, there are some criticism of privacy and some peculiar problems with mediators.Nevertheless, administrations still plan to make efforts to support those foreign-spouses, mostly foreign wives in this case, by organizing language lessons and some others. Also for their children, administrations plan to give them health and child care to include in the society. Moreover, the administrations have targeted to build "multicultural community" for those foreign-spouses to live independently in this society.