Japan's new ruralities : coping with decline in the periphery
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Japan's new ruralities : coping with decline in the periphery
(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)
Routledge, 2020
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Seeking to challenge negative perceptions within Japanese media and politics on the future of the countryside, the contributors to this book present a counterargument to the inevitable demise of rural society.
Contrary to the dominant argument, which holds outmigration and demographic hyper-aging as primarily responsible for rural decline, this book highlights the spatial dimension of power differences behind uneven development in contemporary Japan. Including many fi eldwork-based case studies, the chapters discuss topics such as corporate farming, local energy systems and public healthcare, examining the constraints and possibilities of rural self-determination under the centripetal impact of forces located both in and outside of the country. Focusing on asymmetries of power to explore regional autonomy and heteronomy, it also examines "peripheralization" and the "global countryside," two recent theoretical contributions to the fi eld, as a common framework.
Japan's New Ruralities addresses the complexity of rural decline in the context of debates on globalization and power differences. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, human geography and politics, as well as Japanese Studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Japan's new ruralities Part 1:Transformations in the primary sector 2. From agribusiness to deer hunter: "Placing" food industrialization and multispecies health in Tokachi, Hokkaido 3. Corporatization as hybridization in rural Japan: The case of Iwasaka in Shiga Prefecture 4. Sea pineapples in troubled waters: On the local-global interdependencies of the sea squirt (hoya) industry in the aftermath of the 3.11 disaster 5. Reclaiming the global countryside? Decline and diversification in Saga Genkai coastal fisheries Part 2: Political innovations in rural Japan 6. Local renewables: Japan's energy transformation and its potential for the remaking of rural communities 7. Empowering rural cooperation: Effects of agricultural policy intervention on rural social capital 8. Sustaining healthcare in Japan's regions: The introduction of telehealth networks 9. Regional revitalization as a contested arena: Promoting wine tourism in Yamanashi Part 3: New residents in the countryside 10. Has the island lure reached Japan? Remote islands between tourism boom, new residents and fatal depopulation 11. Fluidity in rural Japan: How lifestyle migration and social movements contribute to the preservation of traditional ways of life on Iwaishima 12. Nai mono wa nai-Challenging and subverting rural peripheralization? Decline and revival in a remote island town 13. Embracing the periphery: Urbanites' motivations for relocating to rural Japan Part 4: Conceptual interventions for a new understanding of rural Japan 14. Reinventing rurality: Hybridity and socio-spatial depolarization in northern Japan 15. Rereading the changing Japanese rural peripheries: New approaches and actors for the future 16. Environmental activity gaps and how to fill them: Rural depopulation and wildlife encroachment in Japan 17. Epilogue: Think global, act peripheral in Japan's new ruralities
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