Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan 9780824861124

Hard Times in the Hometown tells the story of Kaminoseki, a small town on Japan’s Inland Sea. Once one of the most prosp

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Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan
 9780824861124

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Terms
Acknowledgments
Part I. Good Fortunes in Kaminoseki
1. The Silk Road of the Sea: A Beginning
2. Edo Period Riches
Part II. Living with a Changing Polity
3. Murotsu and the Meiji Revolution, 1868
4. The Political Culture of the Meiji Village
5. Ritual Culture and Political Power
Part III. Living with a Changing World
6. Overseas Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
7. The Transnational Hometown: Zenith and Decline
Part IV. Living with the Bright Life
8. Bridging the Postwar Divide
9. Furusato Boom, Kaminoseki Bust
10. Nuclear Decision
Part V. Dying for Survival
11. Atomic Power, Community Fission
12. The Silk Road of the Sea: An Ending
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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