In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

agency, 15, 194–196 agriculture, 4, 35, 69–70, 116, 123, 126–127, 140, 142, 190–191; farming cooperatives 72, 99, 158–159; land ownership, 29–33, 57, 71–80, 87–88, 92, 97–98, 114, 178; orange farming, 70, 113, 123; political representation , 60, 64, 78–79, 174; rice farming 29, 32, 71, 75, 87, 96–97, 112, 123, 131. See also gōnō; kanmai rites; labor Alltagsgeschichte. See historiography alternate attendance, 21, 23, 25, 40 ambition, 4, 86, 164, 195–196 antinuclear campaign, 9, 153–154, 156–157, 161–162, 164, 166–167, 171–181, 184–188, 189, 191; “danger,” 171–173, 178, 198; Not In My Back Yard, 8; “ostracism,” 174–175, 178, 184; rhetoric, 180–181, 183, 185. See also Iwaishima; kanmai rites; pronuclear campaign atomic energy. See energy resources; nuclear power industry atomic weapons, 115, 137, 144–147, 153, 177 Awaya household, 24–25, 27–28, 31–33, 151, 191; Awaya Torazuchi, 96–98, 108, 114, 195. See also Kaminoseki district “backwater Japan” (ura Nihon), 7, 36, 192. See also peripheries bakufu, 20–21, 23, 39, 44–46, 48–50, 60, 62 Befu, 30, 35, 39–40, 48, 51 Bōchō fūdo chūshin’an, 10, 30–33, 41, 65, 122, 190. See also Chōshū border crossing, 15, 33, 99–100, 115, 188, 193–194 “bright” living, 116, 120, 122, 126, 128, 130, 138, 143, 152; nuclear dispute, 151, 181– 183, 200. See also pronuclear campaign Britain, 33, 42, 45–46, 48–49, 51, 106 brothels. See Kaminoseki district; Murotsu district by-employment, 4–5, 10, 30–32, 87, 89, 103, 106, 123, 138. See also labor capitalism, 7, 123, 191–192 central government: prewar, 53–54, 56, 59, 64, 84–85, 87, 94, 99–100; postwar, 125–126, 134–135, 148, 150, 157–158, 184. See also energy resources; nation-state; nuclear power industry; Tokyo China, 5, 35, 83, 102, 104, 111, 195, 196, 200. See also Opium Wars; Sino-Japanese War Chōshū, 5–7, 20–21, 23–36, 39–52, 54–55, 69, 77, 84, 138–139, 194; Hagi, 6, 20, 21, 24– 25, 42, 44, 46, 48, 49; Mōri clan, 20, 25, 45; Murata Seifū, 41–42; Nōheitai, 46–47, 211n.32. See also Bōchō fūdo chūshin’an; Kiheitai; koshini-gata system; Yoshida Shōin Chugoku Electric, xi, 149–150, 153–164, 166– 167, 171, 174–180, 182–184, 187, 189–190, 197, 200. See also Hōhoku town; nuclear power industry civil society, 8, 102, 149, 157–159, 174–176, 188, 194–195 coal. See energy resources Communist Party, 156, 166–167 corporate investment, 135, 149, 152, 157 cotton, 25–26, 31–32, 35, 41, 48, 87 Index 242 Index “culture,” 53–54, 120, 125–130, 136, 148, 184, 197, 200; material culture, 10, 27, 40–41, 58, 73, 99–102, 194, 199–201. See also Shikairō daimyo (feudal lords), 20–21, 23–24, 40, 42, 50, 139 decline, 5, 15, 35–36, 56–57, 86, 88–89, 143, 192, 196–197; responses to, 95–98, 113, 147–148, 151 deflation, 63, 87 democracy, 54, 65, 116, 126, 134, 176. See also electoral politics demography: in colonies, 93–94, 103, 108, 194; depopulation, 131–133, 146, 164, 165, 172– 173, 181–182, 192, 199; in Edo period, 29– 33, 72, 191; overpopulation, 83–85, 89, 123–124, 129, 133, 182 “depopulation countermeasures,” 133, 147– 148, 152, 160, 196 diaspora. See overseas emigration economic growth, 4–5, 13, 31–33, 191–192; postwar booms, 121–122, 129–130, 143, 145 Edo, 20–21, 23, 25, 31, 42, 44–45. See also Tokyo education, 92, 100, 125–126, 129–130, 167, 197–198, See also Kaminoseki district; Murotsu district; School under the Pines electoral politics, 134, 194; mayor, 119, 136, 151, 157, 164, 166, 172, 226n.34; town council, 63, 69, 144, 156–157, 159, 174, 178–179; village assembly, 59, 61–64, 113. See also antinuclear campaign; pronuclear campaign elites, 39–40, 53, 57–59, 61–66, 92, 186–188; intermarriage, 51–52, 75–77, 178; oligarchies , 61–62, 151–152, 159, 175–178, 194– 196. See also gōnō; port elders; vertical relations; village headmen emigration. See overseas emigration empire, 13, 73–74, 93–98, 101–104, 108–109, 114, 194 energy resources: atomic energy, 121, 128, 138, 146–147, 150, 152–153, 160, 164; coal, 9, 15, 138–139, 141–143, 147, 152; Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), 147–148, 151, 155; oil...

Share