Abstract
This paper aims to explain changes in pupil numbers and resulting school closures. From 1963 to 1975 the number of pupils declined drastically, significant amalgamation and reorganization of schools proceeded massively. On the other hands, the number of pupils has been declining since 1988, but there were no major changes in school numbers until 2010 in Okayama prefecture. Therefore, we classified municipalities into ten categories, determined by their changes of school numbers in them, and we analyzed the characteristics of these categories.
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