Yamaguchi Ryutaro, Associate Professor, Ohtsuki City College   How do young people living in rural areas make a living? We think about how to best formulate policies to encourage young people to migrate to and settle in rural areas based on interviews with young people who know the reality of this way of life, including daily life, work, and connections with the local community. Introduction One of the goals of the reshuffled second Abe Cabinet, established in 2014, was to overcome population decline and vitalize local economies in the so-called regional revitalization project, seeking to rectify the unbalanced population concentration in the Tokyo metropolitan area as well as to revitalize and curb population decline in rural areas with a decreasing birthrate and aging population. This has been promoted through regional revitalization promotion grants, the transfer of government organizations to rural areas, the creation of … Continue reading Two Young Persons Living with Rural Migration: Through Interviews in Toyama-go district of Iida City, Nagano Prefecture