| Affiliation: | Christopher S. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Culture in the Department of Linguistics at Ohio University. He is the author of numerous articles on the rural culture of northeastern Japan. Thompson's recent publications include: ‘Recruiting Cyber Townspeople: Local Government and the Internet in a Rural Japanese Township’, Technology in Society 24: 249–360 (2002) and ‘Depopulation in Rural Japan: "Population Politics" in T!["o"]("/math/omacr.gif") wa-ch’, in Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society, ed. John Traphagan and John Knight. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003: 89–106. He can be contacted by e-mail at thompsoc{at}ohiou.edu |
