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Social Innovation by a Leaf-Selling Business: Irodori in Kamikatsu Town

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Kamikatsu Town is a small village with an aging population situated in the mountains of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku Island in the southwest part of Japan. Roughly, 1800 people reside in the village, with more than 50% of the total population over the age of 65 (as of January 1, 2014).

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  1. Department of Global Business, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ayano Hirose Nishihara

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  1. Department of Global Business, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ayano Hirose Nishihara

  2. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo, Japan

    Masaei Matsunaga

  3. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ikujiro Nonaka

  4. National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

    Kiyotaka Yokomichi

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Hirose Nishihara, A. (2018). Social Innovation by a Leaf-Selling Business: Irodori in Kamikatsu Town. In: Hirose Nishihara, A., Matsunaga, M., Nonaka, I., Yokomichi, K. (eds) Knowledge Creation in Community Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57481-3_7

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