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Municipal Power and Population Decline in Japan Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations
Municipal Power and Population Decline in Japan
Fumie Kumagai
Municipal Power and Population Decline in Japan Goki-Shichido and Regional Variations
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Fumie Kumagai Professor Emeritus, Kyorin University Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-981-15-4233-6 ISBN 978-981-15-4234-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4234-3
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Preface
More than four decades have passed since I became interested in the regional variations of my native country, Japan. Such an academic interest seems to have derived from an extended stay of 15 years in the United States, living in nine different states as a graduate student, college professor, and sociology researcher. I realized that the United States is truly diverse in her population and sociocultural outlook, even within the same state. Growing up in the suburbs of Tokyo I knew only about Tokyo, and whenever I was asked things about Japan, I started to wonder if my knowledge of Japan was appropriate or not. Soon after looking at Japan from the outside, I realized that Japan is, in fact, diverse in her characteristics. A tiny island nation, much smaller than the State of California, is a long stretched country, extending from the northern tip of the city of Wakkanai, located at about the same latitude as that of the United States-Canada border, to the islands of Okinawa, roughly equal to the southern tip of Florida. That realization made me notice how little knowledge I possessed about my own country. My partial ignorance of Japan was the starting point of my int
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