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297 I N D E X Abe no Hirafu, 160 Absentee Landlord, The (Fusai jinushi), 117 agricultural production, 26, 123, 125, 126, 128–30, 210–11; agricultural suburb(s), 132–33, 134; forestalling urbanization with, 131–32, 135; shortages, 133 airlines, 219, 220–21 airshows, 221–22 annexations of villages, 85, 105, 108, 114–15, 130, 131, 161, 245, 251, 254. See also urban expansionism architecture of modernism, 207, 208–9, 216, 218–19, 222; the modern cityscape, 199–202 Ariwara Narihira, 176 Asahi Shinbun, 52, 65 Asakusa, 193, 194, 198 Asia-Pacific War, 241, 244 Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 278n5 Bakufu, 159, 160 Banchō neighborhood, Okayama, 183–84 Bandai Bridge, 96, 97, 106, 171, 218 “big city” (dai toshi) movement, 12, 104, 105, 108, 111, 115, 135, 136 bizenyaki, 169, 170 Brandt, Kim, 275n48 BK Station, Osaka, 223 bundan. See literati (bundan) bungaku (university). See universities and by name bunka jūtaku (“culture houses”), 126 bunka machi (“culture villages”), 116 bunmei shi (histories of civilization), 143, 165 burakumin (outcasts), 31–32, 262n36 Bunshō kurabu magazine, 58 café culture, 195 cars. See traffic; vehicles castle towns, 8, 15, 23, 42, 54, 71, 83, 88, 92, 93, 141, 146, 147, 156, 159, 272–73n1. See also Kanazawa; Okayama centers and peripheries, 13, 33, 41, 42, 81–82, 84, 186, 254; periphery as the advance guard, 126 Central Review (Chūō kōron) magazine, 192 Certeau, Michel de, 257 China, war with, 10, 224chihōgaku (local studies), 148 chihō toshi (“provincial cities”), 7, 39, 250 Chūgoku-sen railway company, 90 chronotopes: connectiveness of time and space, 278n5; of futurism, 13, 165, 189, 195; of urban space, 54, 186, 192, 193, 198, 236, 238, 253 Chūgoku minpō newspaper, 67–68 Chūgoku Railway, 220 Chugoku Railway Company, 103 Chūgoku region, 111 cities: the “big city” (dai toshi) movement (see also urban expansionism), 12, 104, 105, 108, 111, 115, 135, 136; city parks, 101, 162, 207, 227; as the site of economic growth, 18–19; sociospatial geographies, 104, 135–36; traditional images of, 15–16. See also second-tier cities; urbanization 298 • I N D E X city-country binary, railway development affecting, 584–88 city idea, 11–12, 15, 23, 115, 139, 147, 157, 186– 87, 191, 236–38, 253–55, 256, 283n8; the city as a machine, 21, 215, 257; ideology of the metropolis, 37, 238, 252–53, 255, 257; interwar period and, 3, 6, 12, 13–14, 105, 142, 179, 236–37, 238, 252, 253–54; universalism and particularism encompassed in, 191, 204, 238; urban futurism, 190–91, 204, 254–55. See also urban biographies; urban-centrism; urban expansionism; urbanization city parks, 101, 162, 207, 227 city planning, 23, 42, 105, 110–11, 125–26, 203, 240, 255–56; City Planning Law (toshi keikaku hō) of 1923, 101; city planning movement, 83, 101, 108–9, 115, 134, 142, 196, 203–4 Colonization Bureau, 162 communications infrastructure, 4, 110, 136; radio, 222–24, 236; television, 224 community: connecting to the past through local history institutions, 150, 153, 157, 165, 172, 173, 176, 185; as a culture formation, 164–65, 186–87; recreating a sense of, 141–42, 143, 168, 171; uniqueness of local culture (see also folk festivals), 170, 173, 185, 186 community building (machizukuri), 144, 190, 237, 238, 245, 249, 283n8 consciousness of the modern, 92, 109–10, 152; and railways, 91, 92 construction industry, 162, 194, 201, 211, 248; construction boom, 20, 21–23, 90, 123, 205, 217–18. See also industrial development and production cosmopolitanism, 240 country. See rural areas Cuckoo (Hototogisu), 76–77 cultural geography, 39–42, 45, 53–54, 61, 81–82; centers and peripheries, 13, 33, 41, 42, 81–82, 84, 186, 254 culture industry, 189 danchi (public housing), 247 demographic movements, 22, 41–42, 271n63. See also urbanization DeNitto, Rachel, 264n11 department stores, 199–200, 212; Tenmaya department store, 232–33 Dōshisha University, 25 dystopia, and gender (see also gender roles), 224–29, 236–37 Earth, The, Shimada Seijirō, 58–60 Echigo Railway, 100, 270n23 economic decline: Japan’s Great Depression, 196; nationwide bank failures of 1927, 196; postwar depression, 26–27, 136 economic development: interwar boom, 17, 18, 23–26, 192, 204; and the Pacific coast, 8, 83–84, 86–87, 90, 91, 245–46, 249–51; rags-to-riches stories, 24–25; railway-led development (see also railways), 84, 115, 137; service economy growth, 189, 229, 255; trade (see also exports; ports), 17, 161, 162–63; World War One and, 16...
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