DOI: 10.5507/ff.23.24463476.09

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE CONTEMPORARY TENSIONS OF REGIONAL AND RURAL PLACES

Anthony Scott Rausch (A.)


This chapter adopts a neo-endogenous development approach in viewing regional and rural Japan, identifying a number of specifically regional and rural tensions that portray both continuity and change, and interpreting the continuity and change associated with these themes in terms of both positive and negative implications. The themes are: urban to rural regional relocation; a neoliberal tax policy and regional tax inequalities; regional think tanks and leadership development; local vitality and regional revitalization volunteerism; and the evolving meaningfulness of the regional newspaper. For each of these, there are conditions that represent continuity, with that continuity implying stability for the area in some cases versus obsolescence of practice or policy in others. Likewise, for each theme, there are responses to the inherent and emerging tensions, proposed changes that reflect innovative policy creation as well as unintentional bias and that lead to both successful outcomes as well as unintended consequences. The content of the chapter draws on several long-term case study research projects undertaken in regional Japan, in an area that represents well the contemporary reality of regional and rural places. It is, however, when the inherent tensions of these cases are contextualized, on the basis of continuity and change, that the trajectories can be generalized to speak to the broader reality of regional Asia. 
 

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