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Decline of farming industry,depopulation,and increasing of the aging society are common problems which appear Japan and South Korea in these days.And green tourism using vacant fields for regional activation and exchange program with urban area could be dominant for the solution.Unfortunately,even though some studies have attempted to build some revitalization programs in the agricultural area of South Korea,most of them are focused on top-down approach which is built by the public.This study focuses on a case of Taniguchi village of Kaneyama town in Yamagata prefecture,Japan,for understanding regional activation program.Especially,the actual condition analysis of the revitalization with four different issues,which are utilizing regional resources,local community,exchange program with urban areas,and local leadership would be the major part in this study.Kaneyama town is located in north part of Yamagata prefecture,and the population is about 7000.The most representative regional resource of this town is forests which cover about 70% of total territory,the Japanese cedar,the convenient landscaping with Kaneyama style housing unit with white walls and stone aqueducts,and the different types of farming industry.The local revitalization program was started with high enthusiasm of local residents in the Taniguchi village.They really wanted to maintain the Taniguchi Elementary school which was closed in 1997.This project consists of two major local revitalization programs,the School of Four Seasons and the Gakko-soba.The School of Four Seasons program is organized with regional experience programs,for examples,the farming experience,field herbs gathering,organic food culinary program such as noodle or rice cake,and snow ski making program for each season per every year.The Gakko-soba is a name of restaurant at Taniguchi Elementary School building.This Gakko-soba program only opens at weekend,because most of costumers come from city at weekends.The School of Four Seasons project and the Gakko-soba are focused on urban costumers rather than local residents.In fact,lots of urban families in Miyagi Prefecture or Tokyo still want to participate in the School of Four Seasons program,and as well as the Gakko -soba program.As increasing this type of marketing strategy,participation ratio is still increasing.Local residents can get some benefits from the program participation,and also can grow their pride of the town.The major staffs who have organized these programs are local residents and graduate of Taniguchi Elementary School,Kaneyama town office,and the agricultural corporative manage the accounts and build the budgets.And deliberations and associations of these three major units can make a dominant leadership in their region.As in a progress,this program gave a seed for a corporation of NPO,and then the connection became more solidity.This case shows well how the private,public,and the community with creativity can build the dominant revitalization program together.