A Year With the Local Newspaper Understanding

Rausch has selected, edited, translated and grouped a year's worth of articles from a local Aomori newspaper into nine chapters which describe Aomori and provide for analysis of the prefecture on the basis of two contemporary sociological themes, peripherality and revitalization.

Anthony S. Rausch is a Lecturer at Hirosaki National University.

Preface

vii

Introduction: Objectives and the Process of This Book

1

(1)

Descriptive Objectives

1

(1)

Analytical and Interpretive Objectives

2

(6)

Reading the TooNippo Newspaper

8

(4)

A First Look at Aomori Prefecture

12

(9)

A Year in Aomori

21

(24)

The Passing of the Year

21

(8)

The Year in Festivals

29

(13)

Year's End

42

(3)

Winter in Aomori

45

(14)

Winter in Aomori

46

(3)

The Record Snowfall of 1999

49

(10)

Cultures of Aomori

59

(20)

Strictly Aomori

61

(6)

New Cultures of Education

67

(4)

Cultures of Tradition, Celebration and Prayer

71

(8)

Aomori as Peripheral

79

(20)

Accessibility

79

(5)

Aging and Welfare

84

(7)

Measures of Poverty

91

(8)

Rural Aomori: Innovation and Urban Ties

99

(28)

The State of Rural Aomori, 1999

101

(8)

A Year in Rural Aomori

109

(5)

The Future of Rural Aomori: Innovation and Urban Ties

114

(13)

Urban Aomori: Processes and Images of ``Rural Urbanism''

127

(20)

The State of Urban Aomori, 1999

129

(6)

The Processes of Rural Urbanism in Aomori

135

(6)

The Future of Urban Aomori

141

(6)

Government and the Economy in Aomori: Access and Recovery

147

(26)

The State of Aomori Government, 1999

149

(8)

The State of the Aomori Economy, 1999

157

(9)

Recovery ... in One Form or Another

166

(7)

Aomori Tourism: Local Resources, National PR

173

(28)

The State of Aomori Tourism, 1999

176

(8)

Aomori Tourism: Local Preparation and National PR

184

(9)

The Landslide of 1999

193

(8)

Aomori Controversies, 1999: The Costs of Revitalization

201

(8)

The Ajigasawa Ski Area Expansion Controversy

202

(4)

The Asian Games, 2003 Controversy

206

(3)

When All is Said and Done

209

(4)

Closing Aomori Prefecture, 1999: Peripherality and Revitalization

213

(8)

Notes

221

(8)

Index

229

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