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A Year With the Local Newspaper: Understanding the Times in Aomori Japan, 1999
By Anthony S. Rausch
published by University Press of America $49.00 (cloth, 240pp) 0-7618-2050-7
Located at the northernmost end of Honshu, Aomori Prefecture is one of the few remaining undiscovered areas of Japan. A Year With the Local Newspaper presents a year of life in Aomori, in a book both accessible and academic. The book is based on a year's worth of articles representative of local issues taken from a local Aomori newspaper and grouped into nine chapters which describe Aomori and provide for analysis of the prefecture on the basis of two contemporary sociological themes, peripherality and revitalization
Table of Contents
Preface
A Year in Aomori
Winter in Aomori
Cultures of Aomori
Aomori as Peripheral
Rural Aomori: Innovation and Urban Ties
Urban Aomori: Processes and Images of "Rural Urbanism"
Government and the Economy in Aomori: Access and Recovery
Aomori Tourism: Local Resources, National PR
Aomori Controversies, 1999: The Costs of Revitalization
When all is Said and Done
Aomori Prefecture, 1999: Peripherality and Revitalization
Notes
Index
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