Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Opportunities
Redaktion: Assmann, Stephanie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic decline in post-war years. Problems of declining birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and migration to cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of March 11, 2011, which destroyed communities, leaving thousands homeless. This book aims to identify these challenges and to explore the opportunities for bringing sustainable revitalization to Japan's rural areas. The book will be of interest not only to students of Japanese society and development, but also to those outside of Japan who are seeking new approaches for tackling de-depopulation challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317577249
• Artikelnr.: 44475442

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