@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00000907,
 author = {Liu, Feng and Hirano, Makoto and Liu, Peiqian},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 issue = {1},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In common perception, economic development is supposed to proceed with the transformation of the main sector of the economy from agriculture to industry, then to services. The principal role of rural areas is, therefore, to provide cities with food, while excess labor gradually migrates from rural to urban areas. But during the last decades, in many countries, there is a tendency that superabundant laborers in rural areas immigrate to cities. Depopulation and senility of the rural areas are causing gradual serious social problem, because the lack of labor power and inefficiency, thus insufficient social infrastructure degrade productivity and living standard in those areas. How to develop the rural areas to stop the moving step of laborers is a meaningful research issue for many countries. In this paper, some cases in Yaeyama islands in Japan are studied by focusing some unique activities on establishing their regional culture which attracts outside people to move back to the rural regions. Even though Yaeyama Islands have its geographical disadvantages, they developed their own life style and culture based on the respect for native nature, under the endeavor of not only the original residents but also lots of immigrations with shared mission, which is called “Star sky manifesto”. This resulted attracting outside people including younger generation and preventing depopulation in local areas. Their successful experience could be a clue for many other rural laggard regions.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {Establishment of Regional Culture for Preventing Depopulation Laborers : case of Yaeyama Islands in Japan},
 volume = {4},
 year = {2008}
}