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A Study on the Dwelling for Korean in Okubo Area, Japan

  • Public Land Law Review
  • Abbr : KPLLR
  • 2012, 56(), pp.527-550
  • Publisher : Korean Public Land Law Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law

Choi, In Ho 1

1남서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to find out the characteristics of dwelling for Korean in Okubo area, Japan in order to provide some information for better ethnic community plans for Korean in Japan. To analyze characteristics of dwelling, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 400 visitors and dwellers who lives in Okubo area located in Shinjuku, Japan from 1 October 2011 to 15 October 2011. 329 sheets of 82.25% of them were returned, all of every 329 valid samples were used in the analysis of characteristics of dwelling. As a result, in the case of 166 residents living in Okubo, the dissatisfaction of dwelling was 6.6%. Residents are satisfied with their living for convenience of transportation. However, the short-term(less than 1 year) dwelling residents accounted for 83.2% as an overwhelmingly high percentage. Because ethnic Korean residents living in the ethnic town are aware of the benefits of ethnic town in Okubo, as the first settlement of ethnic Korean residents in Japan seemed to be preferred Sinokubo ethnic town. However, 163 respondents who did not have experience of dwelling in sinokubo did not want to live in the Okubo area, because of the noises around in the Okubo area. Respondents who did not want to live in the Okubo area was 72.4 percent of respondents. This point was conflicting to the characteristics of dwelling in Okubo area.

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