[Nyororin]

This isn`t something new... I can remember my husband getting postcards from his birth prefecture (begging him to come back) even before we were married. Cities certainly weren`t in a "rebound" then.

People have been leaving the countryside and heading to cities for better opportunities for as long as there have been cities. Many of these countryside towns only have farming or fishing... It`s hard to convince a fresh university graduate in, say, computer science to forget all that and hop on a tractor or a fishing boat.