新しい「共」を創る

Abstract

‘Mura’ is a fundamental organization in Japanese rural society. In the aspect of politics, Japanese centralization of conservative power has been formed on the basis of Mura. On the other hand, in the aspect of economy, farming sector in Mura has been destructed by the free trade policy under WTO. Against these political and economic power structure, a new movement for the reconstruction of relations between urban and rural residents is starting. Both residents try to combine the living manner each other, for example, organic farm products, direct marketing, citizens garden and so on. However, the reform of conservative structure in rural area is not rapid yet, in spite of urban aggressiveness. This gap between urban and rural residents would be filled up by ‘the new citizens society’ as ‘soft network system’ , supporting ‘weak individuals’ against the pressure of the politically economic globalism. In this process Mura structure would be refreshed and reconstructed gradually. In this paper we describe some examples as for these changing process of rural society.