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The temple, the town-office and the migrant: demographic pluralism in rural Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

John Knight
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One widespread image of Japanese internal migration is to be found in a well-known ballad Kita kuni no haru, ‘The northern country spring’, one of the biggest hits of Japanese popular music in the 1970s. The ballad is about a man reflecting on his furusato, the rural hometown from which he migrated to the city.

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , May 1994 , pp. 21 - 47
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1994

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