Christopher S. Thompson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University. John W. Traphagan is Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan and the coeditor (with John Knight) of Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, both published by SUNY Press.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgments Part I. The Political Economy of Social Change in Tohoku Japan 1. The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary JapanJohn W. Traphagan and Christopher S. Thompson 2.The Social Impact of Rural–Urban Shift: Some Akita ExamplesJohn A. Mock 3. Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in Tohoku: Why Is Farming Culturally Central and Economically Marginal?William W. Kelly Part II. Wearing Tradition and Wearing Modernity: Negotiating Paths of Social Change 4. Young Women Making Lives in Northeast JapanNancy R. Rosenberger 5. Negotiating Internationalization in KitasawaTomoko Watanabe Traphagan 6. Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition and Continuity in a Tohoku Hamlet Christopher S. Thompson 7. Heartbreak’s Destination: Tohoku in the Poetic Discourse of EnkaDebra J. Occhi 8. Tradition and Modernity Merged in Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware: Perspectives of Preservation and Promotion, Production and ConsumptionAnthony S. Rausch 9. Epilogue: Tohoku: A PlaceL. Keith Brown ContributorsIndex

Christopher S. Thompson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University. John W. Traphagan is Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan and the coeditor (with John Knight) of Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, both published by SUNY Press.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgments Part I. The Political Economy of Social Change in Tohoku Japan 1. The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary JapanJohn W. Traphagan and Christopher S. Thompson 2.The Social Impact of Rural–Urban Shift: Some Akita ExamplesJohn A. Mock 3. Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in Tohoku: Why Is Farming Culturally Central and Economically Marginal?William W. Kelly Part II. Wearing Tradition and Wearing Modernity: Negotiating Paths of Social Change 4. Young Women Making Lives in Northeast JapanNancy R. Rosenberger 5. Negotiating Internationalization in KitasawaTomoko Watanabe Traphagan 6. Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition and Continuity in a Tohoku Hamlet Christopher S. Thompson 7. Heartbreak’s Destination: Tohoku in the Poetic Discourse of EnkaDebra J. Occhi 8. Tradition and Modernity Merged in Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware: Perspectives of Preservation and Promotion, Production and ConsumptionAnthony S. Rausch 9. Epilogue: Tohoku: A PlaceL. Keith Brown ContributorsIndex

Christopher S. Thompson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio University. John W. Traphagan is Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan and the coeditor (with John Knight) of Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, both published by SUNY Press.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgments Part I. The Political Economy of Social Change in Tohoku Japan 1. The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary JapanJohn W. Traphagan and Christopher S. Thompson 2.The Social Impact of Rural–Urban Shift: Some Akita ExamplesJohn A. Mock 3. Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in Tohoku: Why Is Farming Culturally Central and Economically Marginal?William W. Kelly Part II. Wearing Tradition and Wearing Modernity: Negotiating Paths of Social Change 4. Young Women Making Lives in Northeast JapanNancy R. Rosenberger 5. Negotiating Internationalization in KitasawaTomoko Watanabe Traphagan 6. Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition and Continuity in a Tohoku Hamlet Christopher S. Thompson 7. Heartbreak’s Destination: Tohoku in the Poetic Discourse of EnkaDebra J. Occhi 8. Tradition and Modernity Merged in Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware: Perspectives of Preservation and Promotion, Production and ConsumptionAnthony S. Rausch 9. Epilogue: Tohoku: A PlaceL. Keith Brown ContributorsIndex