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

Contents

Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Terms xi Acknowledgments xiii Part I: Good Fortunes in Kaminoseki 1 The Silk Road of the Sea: A Beginning 3 2 Edo Period Riches 17 Part II: Living with a Changing Polity 3 Murotsu and the Meiji Revolution, 1868 39 4 The Political Culture of the Meiji Village 53 5 Ritual Culture and Political Power 67 Part III: Living with a Changing World 6 Overseas Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 83 7 The Transnational Hometown: Zenith and Decline 99 Part IV: Living with the Bright Life 8 Bridging the Postwar Divide 119 9 Furusato Boom, Kaminoseki Bust 136 10 Nuclear Decision 149 Part V: Dying for Survival 11 Atomic Power, Community Fission 171 12 The Silk Road of the Sea: An Ending 189 Abbreviations 203 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241 viii Contents ...