dialect, 31, 152–153, 222

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), 30, 43

divorce, 81–83, 91, 98, 176–177, 179–180

Dore, Ronald, 8

Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village, 24, 37–38, 42

Dortmans, Carl, 28, 42

dōzoku, 142

earthquake, 12, 20–21, 33, 39, 41, 43, 55, 200, 220–221

Ecru (pizza shop), 174, 181–184, 189, 191, 193, 235, 237

Ehrentraut, Adolf W., 170, 195

eldercare, 106, 108–110, 112–113, 237

elderly, 27, 43, 46, 77, 110–112, 119, 130–132, 201

elites, 87, 231

Embree, John F.

Suye Mura: A Japanese Village, 24, 41

entrepreneurship, 15, 108, 138, 279

conceptualization of, 5

entrepreneur, 4–7, 19, 35–37, 40–41, 51, 60, 80, 83, 86–90, 94–96, 98, 101, 110, 113, 120–128, 132, 137, 140–142, 145–146, 153, 186–188, 190, 196, 214, 224, 226, 233, 280

entrepreneurial activity, 5–6, 17, 30, 34, 51, 59, 87–88, 109, 122, 124, 126–128, 150, 186, 215

entrepreneurial ecosystem, 4–5, 16, 19, 21, 40, 53, 58–61, 63, 70, 73, 120, 124–128, 132–133, 172–173, 188–191, 225, 235–238

entrepreneurial identity, 16, 151

entrepreneurialism, 4–5, 16, 19, 36, 64, 86–87, 107, 110, 113, 121–125, 140–141, 150, 154, 171, 186, 199, 209, 216, 222–223, 225, 231, 236

entrepreneurship behavior, 89

motivations for enterpreneurial behavior, 129

religious, 60–61, 191, 199, 209, 214–216, 222–227, 236

small-business owner, 5, 7, 101, 132

erai, 160, 177

Eri (Yamadera temple), 200–205, 225

ethnographic research, 3, 9, 30, 32

ethnographies of Japan, 7–9, 24, 35, 38–39

Europe, 26, 28, 40–42, 51, 148, 150, 152, 181, 195, 279

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 51, 54

Everyday is Alzheimer’s (documentary), 112

Ezo, 33, 43

Ezuriko Shopping Center Pal, 84–85

FaceTime, 9, 13

faddish sentimentalism, 12

Family Mart, 33, 136

farmhouse, 135–137, 188

farming, 135, 153, 170, 183–184, 210, 237, 280

corporate farms, 15

dairy farms, 25–26, 136, 147, 150, 155

drones, 11

farm families, 14–15, 39, 137, 139–140, 144–146, 150, 187