straitened Japan: the view from twenty years later / Gordon Mathews -- Working women of the bubble generation / Sawa Kurotani … -- "Making an ant's forehead of difference": organic agriculture as a lifestyle alternative in Japan / Nancy Rosenberger -- Shelf … lives and the labors of loss: food, livelihoods, and Japan's convenience stores / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw -- Single women in …

land and housing: property, abandonment, and Japan's land crisis -- Acquiring farming know-how: quality, labour, and … farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan. The book … land and house abandonment in regional Japan, the role of agriculture in the revitalisation of rural communities, and the …