Local Self-organization and Civic Engagement in Regional Japan
DIJ Tokyo, 7 March 2023
Selected publications by conference speakers
Gagné, Isaac. 2021. "Mapping the local economy of care: Social welfare and volunteerism in local
communities." In Rethinking Locality in Japan, edited by Sonja Ganseforth and Hanno Jentzsch,
Routledge, 102-116.
Gagné, Isaac. 2020. "Dislocation, social isolation, and the politics of recovery in post-disaster Japan."
Transcultural Psychiatry 57(5): 710-723.
Gagné, Isaac. 2020 "Tokyo 2020 from the regional sidelines." In Japan through the lens of the TokyoOlympics, edited by Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, and Franz Waldenberger,
Routledge, 118-123.
Ganseforth, Sonja and Hanno Jentzsch (eds.). 2022. Rethinking Locality in Japan. Routledge.
Ganseforth, Sonja. 2022. “Shifting Matter and Meanings in Japanese Seafood Assemblages: Fish as
Functional Food Cyborgs and Emblematic Cultural Commodities.” Green Letters: Studies in
Ecocriticism, Vol. 26, No. 1, 56-71.
Ganseforth, Sonja. 2022. “Territorialized yet fluid locality: Reform, consolidation, and the more-thanhuman in coastal fishery cooperatives.” In Ganseforth, Sonja & Hanno Jentzsch (eds.): Rethinking
Locality in Japan. Routledge, 168–186.
Ganseforth, Sonja. 2021. “Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource
management in Japanese small-scale fisheries.” The Geographical Journal, 00, 1–13.
Ganseforth, Sonja. 2020. “Reclaiming the global countryside? Decline and diversification in Saga
Genkai coastal fisheries.” In Manzenreiter, Wolfram, Ralph Lützeler & Sebastian Polak-Rottmann(eds.), Japan’s new ruralities: Coping with decline in the periphery. Routledge, 82–100.
Geilhorn, Barbara and Linda Flores (eds). 2023. Literature After Fukushima. From MarginalizedVoices to Nuclear Futurity. Routledge.
Geilhorn, Barbara. 2023. “Between Trauma Processing, Emotional Healing, and Nuclear Criticism—Documentary Theatre Responding to the Fukushima Disaster”. In Geilhorn, Barbara and Linda Flores(eds.), Literature After Fukushima. From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. Routledge, 109-23.

Geilhorn, Barbara. 2021. “Towards a Culture of Responsibility – Relating Fukushima, Chernobyl, andthe Atomic Bombings in Setoyama Misaki’s Theatre”. Japan Forum, Vol. 33, No. 4, 497-521.
Geilhorn, Barbara. 2019. “A Multifaceted Fukushima – Trauma and Memory in Ōnobu Pelican’s
Kiruannya and U-ko”. The Asia Pacific Journal, Vol.17, Issue 1, No.1.
Hijino, Ken Victor Leonard. 2021. “Local Government in Japan”, In Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M.
Pekkanen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics. Oxford University Press, 134–158.
Hijino, Ken Victor Leonard, Hideo Ishima. 2021. “Multi-level muddling: Candidate strategies to‘nationalize’ local elections”. Electoral Studies, Volume 70.
Hijino, Ken Victor Leonard. 2020. “What drives Japanese regional elections? Multilevel factors andpartisan independents”. Regional & Federal Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, 419-432.
Jentzsch, Hanno. 2021. Harvesting State Support. Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japan’s
Agricultural Support and Protection Regime. Toronto University Press.
Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. “Japan's Changing Regional World of Welfare: Agricultural Reform, Hamletbased Collective Farming, and the Local Renegotiation of Social Risks”. Pacific Affairs, 93 (2): 327–351.
Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. “Regional Revitalization as a Contested Arena: Promoting Wine Tourism inYamanashi”. In Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph Lützeler, Sebastian Polak-Rottmann (eds.), Japan's
New Ruralities. Routledge: 159–174.
Jentzsch, Hanno. 2017. “Tracing the Local Origins of Farmland Policies in Japan: Local-National Policy
Transfers and Endogenous Institutional Change”. Social Science Japan Journal, 20 (2): 243–260.
Okada, Norio. 2022. “Rethinking Japan’s depopulation problem: Reflecting on over 30 years of
research with Chizu Town, Tottori Prefecture and the potential of SMART Governance”.
Contemporary Japan, 34:2, 210-227.
Okada, Norio. 2022. “SMART Governance Under Persistent Disruptive Stressors to EnhanceCommunity’s Dynamic Resilience: Case of Chizu Town, Japan”. In Mika Shimizu (ed.), A Resilience
Approach to Acceleration of Sustainable Development Goals, Springer, 81-101.
Okada, Norio. 2021. “Build Back Better, Even Before Disaster – Adaptive Design of Communicative
Process, Place and Practice”. In Madhumita Chatterji and Partha Gangopadhyay (eds.), New Frontiersin Conflict Management and Peace Economics, Emerald Publishing, 27-38.
Okada, Norio. 2018. “Adaptive Process for SMART Community Governance under Persistent
Disruptive Risks”. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. Vol. 9, 454–463.
Okada, Norio, Jong-Il Na, Liping Fang, Atsushi Teratani. 2013. “The Yonmenkaigi System Method: AnImplementation-Oriented Group Decision Support Approach”. Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol22, 53–67.

Okada, Norio, Liping Fang, D. Marc Kilgour. 2013. “Community-based Decision Making in Japan”.
Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol 22, 45–52.
Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian. 2022. Über die Reziprozität des Freuens bei politischem Handeln. Eine
qualitative Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs von subjektivem Wohlbefinden und politischerPartizipation in der Aso-Region in Japan (Dissertation, Universität Wien).
Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian. 2021. “Book Review of Cosmopolitan rurality, depopulation, andentrepreneurial ecosystems in 21st-century Japan by John W. Traphagan, Amherst, Cambria Press,2020”, Contemporary Japan (online first).
Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian, Dionyssios Askitis, Antonia Miserka. 2021. “Exploring Rural Well-Being
through an Interdisciplinary Lens — The “Shrinking, but Happy” Research Team at the University ofVienna”, ASIEN 158/159 (Januar/April 2021), 161–176.
Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph Lützeler (eds.). 2020. Japan's NewRuralities. Coping with Decline in the Periphery. Routledge.
Waldenberger, Franz, Gerd Naegele, Hiroko Kudo, und Tomoo Matsuda (eds.). 2022. Alterung undPflege als kommunale Aufgabe: Deutsche und japanische Ansätze und Erfahrungen. Springer
Fachmedien.
Waldenberger, Franz, Gerd Naegele, Hiroko Kudo, und Tomoo Matsuda. 2022. „Einleitung zu Alterung
und Pflege als kommunale Aufgabe“. In Franz Waldenberger, Gerd Naegele, Hiroko Kudo, und TomooMatsuda (eds.) Alterung und Pflege als kommunale Aufgabe: Deutsche und japanische Ansätze undErfahrungen. Springer Fachmedien, 1–17.
Waldenberger, Franz. 2022. „Zivilgesellschaft und Inklusion – zusammenführende Kommentierung“.
In Franz Waldenberger, Gerd Naegele, Hiroko Kudo, und Tomoo Matsuda (eds.) Alterung und Pflege
als kommunale Aufgabe: Deutsche und japanische Ansätze und Erfahrungen. Springer Fachmedien,
137–42.