Anthony S Rausch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4222702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony S Rausch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rausch |
| SIGNATURE | RAUSCH A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hirosaki University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6173-3257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural commodities as cultural economies
The cultural economy framework as a means of realizing the full potential of culture as commodity within the economy of its locale has proven a valuable research approach. The present research extends the links of place, culture, commodity and economy by proposing that in addition to viewing place-based cultural commodities as cumulatively representing the potential of culture overall in the cultural economy of a place, the cultural commodities t…
Regional Think Tanks in Japan
A History of the Local Newspaper in Japan
This chapter examines the trajectory of the Japanese newspaper, outlining the arc of the major titles while concentrating in depth on the diverse and varied histories of the country’s many local newspapers. The chapter begins with the birth of Japanese newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century and the establishment of their modern versions in the pre-Second World War period. While many local newspapers were established in the 30 years preceding th…
Trends and tensions of higher education at a rural Japanese national university
This article examines the impact of contemporary higher education policy at a rural university in Japan. Hirosaki University, although a national university with an attached medical school, is far from the centre of academia in Japan, with a comparatively low ranking among national universities in Japan, and severe budget constraints. The policies that influence the trajectory of the university simultaneously illustrate two dimensions. On the one…
Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast
Reviewed by: Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 by Nathan Hopson Anthony Rausch Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011. By Nathan Hopson. Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. 378 pages. Hardcover, $49.95/£35.95/€45.00. Social science research generally comes in two varieties. One is tightly focused within the boundaries of the disciplines that it seeks to engage with and pro…
Tsugaru Gaku as Area Studies
This review essay speaks to the crisis of Area Studies, offering a view from the field in the form of a review of Tsugaru Gaku (Tsugaru Studies) as a specific Area Studies research case. After presenting an overview of the work of social science researchers working in Japan, both foreign and Japanese, the essay turns to major questions articulated in the literature of Area Studies regarding the purpose, character and future of Area Studies. By re…
A Paradox of Japanese Taxation
This article introduces the Japanese Furusato Nozei Tax System, whereby citizens can designate part of their tax burden to be transferred to as a financial contribution to a prefecture or municipality of their choice, thereby creating an alternative means of taxation. Given that the Furusato Nozei System is gaining widespread popularity, this paper investigates some of its inherent contradictions, its rationale, history and certain paradoxical fe…
Japan's Local Newspapers
Japan is one of the world’s most literate societies. Its national newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of local communities, as well as examining their development, industry structure and production conventions. The author employs the key term, ‘revitalization journalism’, to explore in detail…
Japan's Local Newspapers
Introduction 1. The Japanese Newspaper Industry 2. A Brief History of the Japanese Newspaper 3. The Japanese Newspaper: Values, Assessment, Bias 4. Chihoshi: As Paper and on the Web 5. The Reality of the Local Japanese Newspaper 6. A Future for the Japanese Local Newspaper 7. Conclusion
Rejoinder to Chris McMorran’s Review of Anthony Raush’s Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization
A framework for Japan's new municipal reality
This article revisits the Heisei municipal mergers, first considering the background and justifications for the mergers and then introducing three thematic criteria for their assessment. These criteria, and the framework that emerges on the basis of these criteria, reflect post-merger research that has been undertaken and which focuses on three specific dimensions: the processes and patterns of the mergers; post-merger governing efficiency and go…
Place branding in rural Japan
TheHeisei Dai Gappei
This article presents a preliminary examination of the municipal mergers of the Heisei era as the process unfolded in one rural prefecture in advance of the deadline of March 2006. The article opens by contextualizing the arguments for municipal mergers and the reality of mergers in other settings. A brief history of past periods of municipal mergers in Japan is provided and then the case for Aomori Prefecture, a rural and highly peripheral prefe…
Local Identity, Cultural Commodities, and Development in Rural Japan
This paper considers the development potential of rural and highly peripheral areas of Japan, focusing on local factors of development, together with local identity and cultural commodities, as these are incorporated into what has been called the culture economy. Based on a survey of informed local residents and another of local cultural commodities producers, the paper alludes to what constitutes a culture economy for rural settings and identifi…
Lifelong learning in rural Japan
This paper examines lifelong learning in contemporary Japan, considering first various conceptual, policy and practical aspects before contextualizing the reality of the relevance, focus and sustainability of lifelong learning in a rural Japanese setting by detailing lifelong learning as directed by Aomori Prefecture, Hirosaki University and in a special program of Hirosaki City. On the basis of this contextualization, the paper concludes by prop…
A case study of lifelong learning in Japan
Various conceptualizations of lifelong learning have been developed and various practices of lifelong learning have been identified. This paper introduces several recent conceptualizations of lifelong learning before considering the case for Japan, both in general and through examination of the state of lifelong learning in a rural prefecture and a case study of one lifelong learning programme in a rural city. While the case for the prefecture as…
Role of Local Newspaper Media in Generating a Citizen Volunteer Consciousness
The present paper explores the role of the local media, in the form of a prefectural–level newspaper, in relation to local volunteer activity. The local newspaper's potential for generating social knowledge and uniting resident's consciousness about volunteerism and volunteer activity is examined, considering the influence of volunteer organization leaders on media and public volunteer–related agendas. The data presented appear to point to a role…
The Birth of Tsugaru Shamisen Music
The Emerging Consciousness of Japanese Voluntarism
This paper examines Japanese voluntarism from a historical perspective, through which it can be seen that it is not volunteerism and volunteer activity per se which is emerging in contemporary Japanese society, but instead an emerging consciousness of volunteerism and an associated emerging terminology of volunteerism. This emerging consciousness is in part a function of social evolution, and in part due to an administrative generated movement to…
Social Welfare Related Volunteer Activity
This paper examines three aspects of sustained social welfare volunteer activity in a rural setting: relevance, definition and reality. Volunteer activity is relevant to social welfare needs resolution in contemporary Japan. Survey results indicate that Hirosaki city residents ascribe secondary, or supplementary welfare resolution expectation to regional society. Given the factors of urbanization, increased mobility, weakening of the traditional …
TheHeisei Dai Gappei
This article presents a preliminary examination of the municipal mergers of the Heisei era as the process unfolded in one rural prefecture in advance of the deadline of March 2006. The article opens by contextualizing the arguments for municipal mergers and the reality of mergers in other settings. A brief history of past periods of municipal mergers in Japan is provided and then the case for Aomori Prefecture, a rural and highly peripheral prefe…
A Paradox of Japanese Taxation
This article introduces the Japanese Furusato Nozei Tax System, whereby citizens can designate part of their tax burden to be transferred to as a financial contribution to a prefecture or municipality of their choice, thereby creating an alternative means of taxation. Given that the Furusato Nozei System is gaining widespread popularity, this paper investigates some of its inherent contradictions, its rationale, history and certain paradoxical fe…
A framework for Japan's new municipal reality
This article revisits the Heisei municipal mergers, first considering the background and justifications for the mergers and then introducing three thematic criteria for their assessment. These criteria, and the framework that emerges on the basis of these criteria, reflect post-merger research that has been undertaken and which focuses on three specific dimensions: the processes and patterns of the mergers; post-merger governing efficiency and go…
Lifelong learning in rural Japan
This paper examines lifelong learning in contemporary Japan, considering first various conceptual, policy and practical aspects before contextualizing the reality of the relevance, focus and sustainability of lifelong learning in a rural Japanese setting by detailing lifelong learning as directed by Aomori Prefecture, Hirosaki University and in a special program of Hirosaki City. On the basis of this contextualization, the paper concludes by prop…
Social Welfare Related Volunteer Activity
This paper examines three aspects of sustained social welfare volunteer activity in a rural setting: relevance, definition and reality. Volunteer activity is relevant to social welfare needs resolution in contemporary Japan. Survey results indicate that Hirosaki city residents ascribe secondary, or supplementary welfare resolution expectation to regional society. Given the factors of urbanization, increased mobility, weakening of the traditional …
The Emerging Consciousness of Japanese Voluntarism
This paper examines Japanese voluntarism from a historical perspective, through which it can be seen that it is not volunteerism and volunteer activity per se which is emerging in contemporary Japanese society, but instead an emerging consciousness of volunteerism and an associated emerging terminology of volunteerism. This emerging consciousness is in part a function of social evolution, and in part due to an administrative generated movement to…
The Birth of Tsugaru Shamisen Music
Role of Local Newspaper Media in Generating a Citizen Volunteer Consciousness
The present paper explores the role of the local media, in the form of a prefectural–level newspaper, in relation to local volunteer activity. The local newspaper's potential for generating social knowledge and uniting resident's consciousness about volunteerism and volunteer activity is examined, considering the influence of volunteer organization leaders on media and public volunteer–related agendas. The data presented appear to point to a role…
A case study of lifelong learning in Japan
Various conceptualizations of lifelong learning have been developed and various practices of lifelong learning have been identified. This paper introduces several recent conceptualizations of lifelong learning before considering the case for Japan, both in general and through examination of the state of lifelong learning in a rural prefecture and a case study of one lifelong learning programme in a rural city. While the case for the prefecture as…
Lifelong learning in rural Japan
This paper examines lifelong learning in contemporary Japan, considering first various conceptual, policy and practical aspects before contextualizing the reality of the relevance, focus and sustainability of lifelong learning in a rural Japanese setting by detailing lifelong learning as directed by Aomori Prefecture, Hirosaki University and in a special program of Hirosaki City. On the basis of this contextualization, the paper concludes by prop…
Local Identity, Cultural Commodities, and Development in Rural Japan
This paper considers the development potential of rural and highly peripheral areas of Japan, focusing on local factors of development, together with local identity and cultural commodities, as these are incorporated into what has been called the culture economy. Based on a survey of informed local residents and another of local cultural commodities producers, the paper alludes to what constitutes a culture economy for rural settings and identifi…
TheHeisei Dai Gappei
This article presents a preliminary examination of the municipal mergers of the Heisei era as the process unfolded in one rural prefecture in advance of the deadline of March 2006. The article opens by contextualizing the arguments for municipal mergers and the reality of mergers in other settings. A brief history of past periods of municipal mergers in Japan is provided and then the case for Aomori Prefecture, a rural and highly peripheral prefe…
Place branding in rural Japan
Japan's Local Newspapers
Japan is one of the world’s most literate societies. Its national newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of local communities, as well as examining their development, industry structure and production conventions. The author employs the key term, ‘revitalization journalism’, to explore in detail…
Japan's Local Newspapers
Introduction 1. The Japanese Newspaper Industry 2. A Brief History of the Japanese Newspaper 3. The Japanese Newspaper: Values, Assessment, Bias 4. Chihoshi: As Paper and on the Web 5. The Reality of the Local Japanese Newspaper 6. A Future for the Japanese Local Newspaper 7. Conclusion
Rejoinder to Chris McMorran’s Review of Anthony Raush’s Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization
A framework for Japan's new municipal reality
This article revisits the Heisei municipal mergers, first considering the background and justifications for the mergers and then introducing three thematic criteria for their assessment. These criteria, and the framework that emerges on the basis of these criteria, reflect post-merger research that has been undertaken and which focuses on three specific dimensions: the processes and patterns of the mergers; post-merger governing efficiency and go…
Tsugaru Gaku as Area Studies
This review essay speaks to the crisis of Area Studies, offering a view from the field in the form of a review of Tsugaru Gaku (Tsugaru Studies) as a specific Area Studies research case. After presenting an overview of the work of social science researchers working in Japan, both foreign and Japanese, the essay turns to major questions articulated in the literature of Area Studies regarding the purpose, character and future of Area Studies. By re…
A Paradox of Japanese Taxation
This article introduces the Japanese Furusato Nozei Tax System, whereby citizens can designate part of their tax burden to be transferred to as a financial contribution to a prefecture or municipality of their choice, thereby creating an alternative means of taxation. Given that the Furusato Nozei System is gaining widespread popularity, this paper investigates some of its inherent contradictions, its rationale, history and certain paradoxical fe…
Trends and tensions of higher education at a rural Japanese national university
This article examines the impact of contemporary higher education policy at a rural university in Japan. Hirosaki University, although a national university with an attached medical school, is far from the centre of academia in Japan, with a comparatively low ranking among national universities in Japan, and severe budget constraints. The policies that influence the trajectory of the university simultaneously illustrate two dimensions. On the one…
Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast
Reviewed by: Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 by Nathan Hopson Anthony Rausch Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011. By Nathan Hopson. Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. 378 pages. Hardcover, $49.95/£35.95/€45.00. Social science research generally comes in two varieties. One is tightly focused within the boundaries of the disciplines that it seeks to engage with and pro…
A History of the Local Newspaper in Japan
This chapter examines the trajectory of the Japanese newspaper, outlining the arc of the major titles while concentrating in depth on the diverse and varied histories of the country’s many local newspapers. The chapter begins with the birth of Japanese newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century and the establishment of their modern versions in the pre-Second World War period. While many local newspapers were established in the 30 years preceding th…
Regional Think Tanks in Japan
Cultural commodities as cultural economies
The cultural economy framework as a means of realizing the full potential of culture as commodity within the economy of its locale has proven a valuable research approach. The present research extends the links of place, culture, commodity and economy by proposing that in addition to viewing place-based cultural commodities as cumulatively representing the potential of culture overall in the cultural economy of a place, the cultural commodities t…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Japanese History and Culture (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Newspaper (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)