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Japan is one of the world's most literate societies. Its national
newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the
country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book
assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of
local communities, as well as examining their development, industry
structure and production conventions. The author employs the key
term, 'revitalization journalism', to explore in detail the many
techniques and conventions that local newspapers employ to engage
with, and make an impact in, their specific host regions. The book
concludes by comparing Japanese local newspapers to the current
state of newspapers worldwide, and assessing how Japanese local
newspapers are likely to develop in future.
Japan is one of the world's most literate societies. Its national
newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the
country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book
assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of
local communities, as well as examining their development, industry
structure and production conventions. The author employs the key
term, 'revitalization journalism', to explore in detail the many
techniques and conventions that local newspapers employ to engage
with, and make an impact in, their specific host regions. The book
concludes by comparing Japanese local newspapers to the current
state of newspapers worldwide, and assessing how Japanese local
newspapers are likely to develop in future.
Japan's population is shrinking. Based on current trends, it will
decline by an average of half a million people per year for the
next forty years. The country is also getting older and the ratio
of dependants to active workers is expected to approach 1:1 by
around 2030. These two interdependent processes will bring great
changes to Japan in the coming decades. In the twenty-first
century, a historic turnaround in global demographic trends will
occur. Europe and East Asia are especially vulnerable to
demographic shrinkage. Germany is already shrinking, as is Russia.
South Korea will begin to shrink soon and, importantly, so will
China from around 2035. Overall, this is good news, but it brings
with it worldwide changes to ways of living and working. Japan's
rural areas have been shrinking for decades. Entire villages have
vanished; some have even been "sold." Thousands of municipalities
have been judged "non-viable" and merged. Thousands more private
and public enterprises have collapsed, leaving colossal debts,
while hundreds of thousands of older people live miserable lives in
neighbourless communities. Rural shrinkage has been the unseen
corollary of Japan's extraordinarily dynamic twentieth century
urban expansion; indeed, Japan's postwar economic miracle has been
achieved at the expense of rural retreat. Potentially disastrous is
the negative-sum game that national depopulation triggers, as one
community's gain becomes another's loss. Japan's Shrinking Regions
in the 21st Century reveals how communities are responding
positively to these emerging circumstances, delivering a message of
hope and vitality to shrinking regions worldwide. Setting Japan
alongside Europe, and with an epilogue describing the T hoku
earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown of 11 March 2011, the
book offers policy makers and practitioners up to date advice for
community revival born of extensive collaborative fieldwork across
the whole Japanese archipelago. Japan's Shrinking Regions in the
21st Century brings together the work of 18 international scholars
to present the first comprehensive study of regional shrinkage
under Japan's national depopulation. Interspersed throughout with
numerous illustrations, the book reveals a richly textured
examination of shrinkage at the local level, from which emerges the
overall story of Japan's depopulation and its place within the
trajectory of world development. This will be an important source
for all social science collections, as well as for researchers,
policy makers, students, and practitioners with interests in
regional development, demography, East Asia, and post-industrial
change.
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