Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan

Challenges and Opportunities
Herausgeber: Assmann, Stephanie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years. Low birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and youth migration to large cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of 11 March 2011, which destroyed farming and fishing communities and left thousands of people homeless. This book identifies these challenges and acknowledges that an era of post-growth has arrived in Japan. Through exploring new forms of regional employment, community empowerment, and reverse migration, the authors address potential opportunities and benefits that may help to create and ensure the quality of life in depopulating areas and post-disaster scenarios. This book will be of interest not only to students of Japanese society, but also to those outside of Japan who are seeking new approaches for tackling depopulation challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781138476974
• ISBN-10: 1138476978
• Artikelnr.: 52457004

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Assmann is a professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Challenges in Rural Areas 1. Social Sustainability in
Post-3.11 Coastal Japan: The Significance of Social Capital 2. Local
Schools in Remote Areas: Challenges for Youth, Parents and Community 3. The
Heisei Municipal Mergers: Measures of Sustainability, Equality and Identity
4. Agriculture in Japan: Free Trade and the Need for Reform Part II Case
Studies Employment in Rural Areas 5. Social Enterprise Businesses in Rural
Community Development in Hokkaido 6. Working for Others in Kawakami:
Contradictive Expectations, Tensions, and Negotiating Power Relations
Sustainability Across Generations: Life Reform, Lifestyle Migration and
U-Turn Movements 7. Young Urban Migrants in the Japanese Countryside
Between Self-realization and Slow Life? The Quest for Subjective Well-being
and Post-materialism 8. Islands for Life: Artistic Responses to Remote
Social Polarisation and Population Decline in Japan 9. Reforming Life as
Mothers and Wives in Rural Japan: The Post-WWII Life Reform (Seikatsu
Kaizen) Initiative in Hamlet M, Tochigi Prefecture Brand Management and
Tourism 10. Tourism as a Future for Local Rail Services? An Analysis of
Debates in Akita Prefecture 11. Hokkaido's Overlapping Protected Areas and
Regional Revitalization: The Case Study of Toya-Usu Geopark in
Shikotsu-Toya National Park