1. Introduction: Japan’s new ruralities
Part1:Transformations in the primary sector
2. From agribusiness to deer hunter: "Placing" food industrialization and multispecies health in Tokachi, Hokkaido
3. Corporatization as hybridization in rural Japan: The case of Iwasaka in Shiga Prefecture
4. Sea pineapples in troubled waters: On the local-global interdependencies of the sea squirt (hoya) industry in the aftermath of the
3.11 disaster
5. Reclaiming the global countryside? Decline and diversification in Saga Genkai coastal fisheries
Part2: Political innovations in rural Japan
6. Local renewables: Japan’s energy transformation and its potential for the remaking of rural communities
7. Empowering rural cooperation: Effects of agricultural policy intervention on rural social capital
8. Sustaining healthcare in Japan’s regions: The introduction of telehealth networks
9. Regional revitalization as a contested arena: Promoting wine tourism in Yamanashi
Part3: New residents in the countryside
10. Has the island lure reached Japan? Remote islands between tourism boom, new residents and fatal depopulation
11. Fluidity in rural Japan: How lifestyle migration and social movements contribute to the preservation of traditional ways of life on Iwaishima
12. Nai mono wa nai-Challenging and subverting rural peripheralization? Decline and revival in a remote island town
13. Embracing the periphery: Urbanites’ motivations for relocating to rural Japan
Part4: Conceptual interventions for a new understanding of rural Japan
14. Reinventing rurality: Hybridity and socio-spatial depolarization in northern Japan
15. Rereading the changing Japanese rural peripheries: New approaches and actors for the future
16. Environmental activity gaps and how to fill them: Rural depopulation and wildlife encroachment in Japan
17. Epilogue: Think global, act peripheral in Japan’s new ruralities