@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00001173,
 author = {YAGI, Yukari and NAGAI, Kohei and SUZUKI, Naofumi and MATOUS, Petr},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 month = {May},
 note = {Japanese rural areas are depopulating and the proportion of the elderly is rapidly increasing as young people are migrating to urban areas. There are less and less public services because of the financial difficulty of the local governments. The study explores what makes their lives sustainable under such circumstances, with a particular focus on social capital. The subject of the study is a mountainous village in Kochi prefecture, Japan, where about 800 people live in 300 households, with the rate of elderly people is over 30%. To explore (1) the elements that constitute the well-being of different types of people, and (2) the relational ties through which they acquire those elements, a social network analysis has been employed. A face-to-face questionnaire survey was carried out with the whole adult population (age 16+), by visiting each household in the area. Two methods for social capital and social network data gathering, namely resource and name generators, were combined into a single instrument. This paper reports Dandan-club, a residents association trying to vitalize the village, plays an important role to keep the residents' daily lives comfortable.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {A Survey of Social Support Networks in a Depopulating Japanese Village},
 volume = {8},
 year = {2012}
}