This study examines people's consciousness and behavior in japanese rural areas in the wartime regime, especially their reaction to nationalistic activities. It focuses first on the situation concerning cooperation. Although attempts to cooperate in agricultural labor did have motives arising from nationalistic education, rural people did not understand this value, but accept volunteers only as their new workforce. Furthermore they had no interest in attempting to cooperate in daily life,especially in day-care centers and the common kitchen, because they didn't like to be interfered with in their private life. Secondly it discusses the situation in "DOJO" education, that is a camp for nationalistic education. According to their age and social career we can divided trainees into two different groups. On the one hand we find some trainees who saw it positively as a channel of self-realization, on the other some who expressed a sense of incongruity. Considering these points, we need to extend the discussion of rural people in war-time from the simply economic standpoint.