This paper is intended to investigate the influences of policies upon sports in Yoshida-mura of Iishi-gun in Shimane-ken as a case of those in the depopulated areas. Policies on sports were dynamically analyzed as well as the development or transfiguration of sports were clarified. The results are summarized as follows: 1) In the changing political and social situations, new measures for sports promotion were taken in Yoshida-mura. Some of those measures were ones that acceded to the policies of the Shimane-ken authorities, and affected sports in Yoshida-mura. As a result, the Yoshida-mura sports association was intensified as a substitutional agent for the administration of sports promotion in Yoshida-mura, being taken into the systematic orders which link up with the Shimane-ken and the Iishi-gun sports associations. Also, sports events run by that organization seemed to have a nature of obligated and restrained involvement latently: a kind of power. 2) It is critical to provide sports facilities in the process of the promotion of sports. However, sports facilities are provided within the limits of funds and priority compared with other measures. Naturally, provision or non-provision of sports facilities influences the inhabitants' sports activities. These problems are influenced by the nature of depopulation and the attitudes people hold toward sports. 3) In the situation of continuing depopulation, sports practice and its meaning have become related to the movement of life improvement, together with the policy on community development. The Yoshida-mura sports association has been reformed again in relation to this movement. However, it has not yet found a way to promote sports practice as a part of life improvement.