abandoned property, 27, 42, 45, 199, 209, 227

See also vacant buildings

Abe Administration, 15

Aeon, 2, 84

Africa, 191

agency, 23, 28, 95, 99, 121, 141, 153, 224

Aging in Rural Japan, 24, 42, 227–228

agricultural reforms, 15, 40–41

Akiko (Pressé store owner), 79–90, 94–96, 101–102, 113, 125–128, 131, 138–140, 142–143, 155, 176, 178–179, 186–187, 189–190

Akita Prefecture, 88

Amherst (Massachusetts), 32, 39

ancestors, 15, 135, 142, 147, 155, 161–162, 168, 174, 205, 207–209, 215, 218, 226–227

Ancient Capitals Preservation Law. See under preservation

Antai-ji. See under temple

architecture, 170–171, 174, 195, 201, 227

atotsugi. See successor

Auerswald, Philip E., 127, 133

Bailey, Jackson, 32, 38, 43

bakeries, 183–184

baseball, 29, 77, 130, 206

Basic Act for Promoting Small Enterprises, 19

Beardsley, Richard K. See Village Japan

bed and breakfast, 149

bedridden, 91–92, 107, 109–111, 213

Bell-Masterson, Jordan, 125–126, 132

Benelux, 28, 42

Bernstein, Gail L.

Haruko’s World, 24, 42

Bestor, Theodore C.

Neighborhood Tokyo, 8, 37

Bhabha, Homi, 153

binary, 22–23, 25, 27, 58, 63, 172, 238

Boswell, Rosabelle, 191, 197

Brown, L. Keith, 32, 39, 42–43, 73, 142, 155, 227, 280

Buddha. See under Buddhism

Buddhism

Buddha, 215, 219–220, 222

convention, 223–226

entrepreneurial, 60–61, 191, 199, 209, 215–216, 222–225, 227, 236

experimental, 217, 224–225, 227

image of, 167–168, 209, 216–217, 223

Jōdo Shinshū, 219, 228

monk, 210, 217, 222

nature of, 60–61, 222, 224

priest, 201, 203–204, 206, 209–211, 214–217, 219, 222–225, 228

temple, 167, 191, 201, 203–219, 221–229

buke-yashiki, 174

bullet train, 11, 13, 25, 76

bushido, 87–88