location quotient analysis, 126–127

Kchi Prefecture (continued )

manufacturing employment, 129

medical services and healthcare employment, 329

peripherality, 123

sustainable employment, 327

Kchi University of Technology, 366

Koizumi administration, 241, 252, 254, 265, 313, 406

Kumamoto Prefecture, 153–156, 236–238

Kusakabe Village, 203–212

Kyoto Prefecture, 184–189

Law to Restore Health to Local Finances ( jichitai zaisei kenzenka h), 266

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), 90, 239, 247, 406

local allocation tax (chih kfuzei), 86, 250

local consciousness (Kamaishi City), 319

local finances, 62, 173, 236, 246, 253

Law to Restore Health to Local Finances ( jichitai zaisei kenzenka h), 266

local revitalization, 248, 370, 391–399, 404–405

location quotient analysis, 126–127

Lost Decade, 3, 89

machizukuri (community–revitalisation planning), 243, 370

mackerel route, 184, 252

maintenance (and sustenance), 182–183

manufacturing, 28–29, 85, 333

Kamaishi City, 225

manufacturing (continued )

Kchi Prefecture, 127–130

migration, 106, 121, 166

international, 289–295

migrating away, 117

rural–urban, 99

Ministry of the Environment, 407–415

minzoku (traditional folk) practices, 359

Miyagi Prefecture, 448–449

Mount Fuji trail signs, 416–418

mountain villages, 157, 163, 252, 315

Nagano Prefecture, 145, 166

namahage (Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture), 284, 349, 360

National Development Plan (zenkoku sg kaihatsu keikaku), 81, 234, 241

Improvement of Regional Disparity, 87

National Income Doubling Plan, 87

National Land Sustainability Plan Act, 242

national park system, 407–409

as brand, 412–414

chiikisei, 419–421

communicating with visitors, 415–417

visitor trends, 410

neoliberal economic theory, 267–268

networks (in hope), 321–323

Niigata Prefecture

migration, 100

population change, 97, 100–103, 106–110

population in national context, 97–104

population natural increase, 100