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The purpose of this paper is to provide some implications for a next-generation model of paddy-farming in Japan, through a validation of the large-scale mechanized farming concept and practice in Ogata Village, Akita Prefecture, born as 'a future agricultural model for Japan.' First, even though contracts of land sale and farming systems were connected between the settlers and the country, both parties often came across bad opportunities and confrontation. But, even though the failure of rice direct seedling as a critical portion of a national plan, strong desire and no-compromise pursuit by the settlers of mechanized systems contributed to encourage establishment of large-scale mechanized rice-only systems using such devices as transplanters to serve the purpose of the initial results. Second, village farmers piled on marketing ingenuity and hard work under the Food Act, and at the same time succeeded in environment-friendly agricultural production. Therefore, they tend to focus only on rice and were increasingly spurred on; as a result, weak changes were effected on the land use system from the inside. Third, the development of farmers' cooperation with consumers, users and other regions' farmers including livestock farmers also caused new changes to the land use system.
