山崎 真之
生活学論叢 24 15-26 2014年 査読有り
This paper aims to analyze the acculturation of new settlers in Chichi-jima island, Ogasawara village. This study mainly handles the cases of new subsistence held by the new settlers in Chichi-jima island. In Japan, many islands have a problem of decrease in population. But on the other hand, some islands have increase of population due to the I-turn phenomenon. These cases are estimated that it will still increase in Japan. So, I picked up Chichi-jima island, Ogasawara village because this island is consisted by many inhabitants who are not born and raised in this island. They are called "shintoumin". Shintoumin has a character of "Life-style emigrants" when they settled in this island. But, many shintoumin doesn't stay in the island more than 3 years. In this paper I called this Phenomenon "3 years wall". Shintoumin who stays in long period caused acculturation of local society, especially among shintoumin through subsistence which are new to the island. I found out that there is a social capital among shintoumin. For example, there is a tendency of not to interrupt people who are going to start a new subsistence in the island. Shintoumin's are using this social capital cleverly and they are "cultivating" this island, as a result new characters of the island are made.