Movement to Improve Rural Areas was government-regulated movement which aimed to improve and reconstruct regional societies, cities, towns and villages which had been devastated after the Russo-Japanese War.
地方改良運動（ちほうかいりょううんどう）とは、日露戦争後に荒廃した地方社会と市町村の改良・再建を目指す官製運動のこと。