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Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of individuals who relocate from urban to rural areas and seek new modes of working and living, this multisited ethnography reveals the changing role of rurality, from postwar notions of a stagnant backwater to contemporary sites of experimentation. The individual cases presented in the book vividly illustrate changing lifestyles and perceptions of work. What emerges from Urban Migrants in Rural Japan is the emotionally fraught quest of many individuals for a personally fulfilling lifestyle and the conflicting neoliberal constraints many settlers face. In fact, flexibility often coincides with precarity and self-exploitation. Susanne Klien shows how mobility serves as a strategic mechanism for neophytes in rural Japan who hedge their bets; gain time; and seek assurance, inspiration, and courage to do (or further postpone doing) what they ultimately feel makes sense to them.

This book is a valuable contribution to knowledge about diversifying rural Japan and evokes reflection about the future of post-growth Japan. Kliens study benefits from assiduous and long-term field research and insightful analysis. She excels at locating the specifics of the study in theoretical observations and concepts, thereby setting the work into a larger consideration of Japans paradigm shifts in lifestyle and values. Nancy Rosenberger, author of Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation

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URBAN MIGRANTS IN RURAL JAPAN

Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society

SUSANNE KLIEN

Cover photo of Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture (taken by the author).

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

2020 State University of New York Press

Printed in the United States of America

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.

For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Klien, Susanne, 1972 author.

Title: Urban migrants in rural Japan : between agency and anomie in a post-growth society / Susanne Klien.

Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019016744 | ISBN 9781438478050 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438478074 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Urban-rural migrationJapan. | Rural-urban relationsJapan. | Amenity migrationJapan. | LifestylesJapan. | JapanSocial conditions21st century.

Classification: LCC HT381 .K55 2020 | DDC 307.2/60952dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019016744

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This book is dedicated with love to my mum,
who has been an incredible fighter all her life.

Contents

C HAPTER O NE
Lifestyle Migration and Mobility: Negotiating Urban Lifestyles in Rural Communities

C HAPTER T WO
The Countryside between Aging, Lack of Perspectives, and Creative Depopulation through the Lens of Female Settlers

C HAPTER T HREE
Post-Growth Forms of Living and Working: Countryside as Experimental Ground and Social Imaginary

C HAPTER F OUR
Between Agency and Anomie, Possibility and Probability: Lifestyle Migrants and the Neoliberal Moment

C HAPTER F IVE
Convergence of Work and Leisure: Blessing or Plight?

C HAPTER S IX
Liminal Belonging and Moratorium Migration: Lifestyle Migrants between Limbo and Purpose of Life

C HAPTER S EVEN
Social Entrepreneurs between Self-Determination and Structural Constraints: Examples from Miyagi and Tokushima Prefectures

C ONCLUSION
Deconstructing Japans Rural-Urban Divide

Illustrations

All photos were taken by the author, except figure 3.2.

Acknowledgments

A book is a lengthy project that in many ways resembles ones own life: moments of intense positive emotion and excitement intercepted by resignation and even depression about the direction of the project. Ethnographic research involves close contacts with a multiplicity of people, which in itself contributes to the fluidity of the research process. These encounters often evolve in ways that are difficult to predict in all their details. Regardless of the diverse circumstances that led me to each interviewee, I am deeply grateful for the time they gave me despite their tight schedules. Without their cooperation, this book could not have been written.

The number of people to whom I am indebted is too large to name each individually, but I would like to express my deep gratitude to David H. Slater at Sophia University, from whom I received invaluable feedback on various occasions. I would also like to thank my inspirational colleagues at Hokkaido University for the constructive atmosphere, especially Paul Hansen, Emma E. Cook, and Stephanie Assmann. I also appreciate incisive comments by Barbara R. Ambros of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sachiko Horiguchi of Temple University Japan, Makoto Osawa, Flavia Fulco of Tohoku University, and Jun Nagatomo of Kwansei Gakuin University. I also thank (in no particular order) John W. Traphagan at University of Texas at Austin, Florian Coulmas at Duisburg-Essen University, Fumitoshi Kato, Keio University and Johannes Wilhelm, Kumamoto University, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni at Tel Aviv University, and Wolfram Manzenreiter of Vienna University for their constructive advice and support at various stages of the project. Great thanks are due to Zoe B. Woodward for her professional proofreading of parts of the manuscript for this book. I thank Christopher Ahn, senior acquisitions editor at SUNY Press, for his continuing support, and the copyediting staff at the press for their meticulous reading of the manuscript. I would also like to express my gratitude to the reviewers for their constructive comments.

I am grateful for funding from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for the three-year Grant-in-Aid Research Project 16K03212, Moratorium Migration in Contemporary Post-Growth Japan: Lifestyle Volunteers between Insecurity and Fulfillment (FY 2016FY 2018).

It is impossible to name everyone who helped me, including all the representatives of local governments across Japan who kindly offered their support in getting to know the field(s). The number of individuals to whom I am indebted is exceedingly high, but all mistakes are mine.

Introduction

This book explores what values, dreams, and aspirations urbanites between twenty and forty-five years of age maintain who choose to relocate to rural areas in Japan. I present empirical data obtained from multisited fieldwork across Japan, examining how individuals position themselves in their new surroundings and engage with their environments in their pursuit of a personally more meaningful private and professional life.

I start with a simple proposition: being on the move has become a way of life (Urry 2002: 265) for many younger individuals in Japan, and the simultaneity of sedentary and mobile elements (Ralph and Staeheli 2011: 581) shapes peoples lives. The situation in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, a town that was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, is commensurate with these claims: coworking spaces equipped with broadband wireless internet open to everyone, designer-style collective housing, former disaster volunteers turned entrepreneurs, temporary part-time workers, corporate refugees, multiple dwellers dividing their time between Tokyo and Ishinomaki, and short-term visitors who are still employed conventionally side by side in the Reconstruction Bar (Fukk Bar). The emergence of shared office space, collective housing, and urban-style deli takeout in Kamiyama, Tokushima Prefecture, has also recently caught the attention of media. In addition, ij [rural relocation] concierges, that is, staff employed by local governments whose task is to provide advice to individuals interested in moving to a rural town, have recently appeared across Japan.

In other words, rather than nostalgia-evoking rice paddy fields, the rural tends to be represented through more fuzzy images these days. In popular lifestyle magazines, articles about organic farming seem to have been replaced with information about sleek IT venture entrepreneurs ), creative depopulation (minami in Matsunaga 2015), or happy depopulated area ( kfuku na kasochi ; Sashide 2016: 116).

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