Tarama was electrified and received direct telephone service in 1964, and residents were supplied with power for five hours a day.

Regular ferry service to the village began in the same period, and Tarama Airport was opened in December 1971.

In the period prior to World War II typhoon damage and drought caused many residents to leave the island, mostly to Osaka and areas of the newly formed Japanese Empire.

[8] The preschool and Tarama Elementary school are connected, and located directly south of the village hall at the north of the island.

Tarama Junior High School is located .5 kilometres (0.31 mi) south of the village hall.

Tarama Village hosts sixty designated or registered tangible cultural properties and monuments, at the national, prefectural or municipal level.