Development of mountain village studies in postwar Japan: Depopulation, peripheralization and village renaissance

Geographical Review of Japan, Series B

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 60-69

  Okahashi, Hidenori ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depopulation; Japan; Mountain village; Peripheralization; Rural geography; Village renaissance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; ECONOMIC REGENERATION; MOUNTAIN VILLAGE; PERIPHERALISATION; POST-WAR PERIOD; RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT; RURAL DEPOPULATION; RURAL STUDY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030432507     PISSN: 02896001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4157/grj1984b.69.60     Document Type: Article

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