Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures and Tables ix
4. Notes on Terms xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Part I. Good Fortunes in Kaminoseki
7. 1. The Silk Road of the Sea: A Beginning 3
8. 2. Edo Period Riches 17
9. Part II. Living with a Changing Polity
10. 3. Murotsu and the Meiji Revolution, 1868 39
11. 4. The Political Culture of the Meiji Village 53
12. 5. Ritual Culture and Political Power 67
13. Part III. Living with a Changing World
14. 6. Overseas Migration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 83
15. 7. The Transnational Hometown: Zenith and Decline 99
16. Part IV. Living with the Bright Life
17. 8. Bridging the Postwar Divide 119
18. 9. Furusato Boom, Kaminoseki Bust 136
19. 10. Nuclear Decision 149
20. Part V. Dying for Survival
21. 11. Atomic Power, Community Fission 171
22. 12. The Silk Road of the Sea: An Ending 189
23. Abbreviations 203
24. Notes 205
25. Bibliography 229
26. Index 241