Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan

by John W. Traphagan

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Japan has been experiencing an unprecedented decline in population that is expected to accelerate over the coming decades. Rural areas, in particular, have been at the cutting edge of this demographic transition as young people often out-migrate to urban areas to pursue education and career opportunities and to explore spaces and lifeways viewed as cosmopolitan and international. At the same time,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621965023
• ISBN13: 9781621965022
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"