Japan's new ruralities: Coping with decline in the periphery Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph L?tzeler and Sebastian Polak‐Rottmann, New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 332, £36.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9780367354183 (paperback)
Japan's new ruralities: Coping with decline in the periphery Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph L?tzeler and Sebastian Polak‐Rottmann, New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 332, £36.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9780367354183 (paperback)
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日本的新农村:应对外围地区的衰退 由 Wolfram Manzenreiter、Ralph L?tzeler 和 Sebastian Polak‐Rottmann 编辑,纽约:Routledge,2020 年,第 332 页,36.99 英镑(平装本),ISBN:9780367354183(平装本)
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10.1111/ijjs.12145
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2023
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Katano Yohei
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千葉 修 ; 島田 紀子 ; 工藤 雄大 ; 長 由扶子 ; 山下 まり ; 此木 敬一;Katano Yohei
In Japan, a country that continues to face the challenges associated with a declining and aging population, the debate continues regarding whether regional communities will survive or disappear. Using population data, Masuda (2014) showed that many municipalities are on the verge of extinction. However, many researchers in rural sociology and rural studies have refuted the report using examples of connections that transcend space. For example, there are weekend farmers, successor heirs who return to their family home on the weekends to farm (Odagiri, 2014; Tokuno & Kashio, 2014); overlooked community members from outside the village (Yamashita, 2012); and multi-regional constituents (Yamashita, 2014).I also believe that judging the continuation or extinction of regional communities based on a limited number of indicators, such as local government financial indicators and the aging rate, is akin to diagnostic mistakes made by an inexperienced doctor. Although the status of each municipality can be understood, albeit roughly, based on such indicators, many municipalities that have been “pronounced dead” are full of people living their lives with energy. Since there