Editing Micronation (section)

=== Micronational community in Japan: 1981–1991 ===
{{Main|Mini-dokuritsukoku}}

In 1981, drawing on a news story about Hemingway's New Atlantis, novelist [[Hisashi Inoue]] wrote a 700-page work of [[magic realism]], ''[[Kirikirijin]]'', about a village that secedes from Japan and proclaims its bumpkinish, marginalized [[dialect]] its national language, and its subsequent [[war of independence]]. This single-handedly inspired a large number of real-world Japanese villages, mostly in the northern regions, to declare independence, generally as a move to raise awareness of their unique culture and crafts for urban Japanese who saw village life as backwards and uncultured. These micronations, known as [[Mini-dokuritsukoku|mini-independent countries]] ({{langx|ja|ミニ独立国|mini dokuritsu koku}}),<ref>{{cite book|last=Vlastos|first=Stephen|year=1998|title=Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|page=121|isbn=978-05-20206-373}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Munetaka|last1=Kurahara|first2=Yuki|last2=Goto|first3=Toshiya|last3=Hikage|date=30 October 1996|url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/aija/61/488/61_KJ00004221789/_pdf/-char/ja|title=住民主体のまちづくりに向けての北海道ミニ独立国の活動に関する考察|trans-title=Consideration on the activities of the mini-independent country of Hokkaido for resident-centered town planning|language=Japanese|journal=Proceedings of the Architectural Institute of Japan|publisher=Architectural Institute of Japan|volume=61|issue=488|pages=165–175|doi=10.3130/aija.61.165_2|doi-access=free| issn = 1340-4210 }}</ref> held intermicronational [[summit (meeting)|summits]], and some of them formed confederations and intermicronational organisations. The Ginko Federation held an intermicronational [[Olympic games]] in 1986. However, the economic impact of the [[Japanese asset price bubble]] in 1991 ended the boom. Many of the villages were forced to merge with larger cities, and the micronations and confederations were generally dissolved.<ref>{{cite book|first=Shigeru|last=Inoue|title=日本まちづくり事典|trans-title=Nippon Matchidukuri Jiten|pages=407–409|year=2010|language=Japanese|publisher=Maruzen Publishing|isbn=978-4-621-08194-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Trans35_08_Streich.pdf|last=Streich|first=Philip|date=2021|title=The Japanese Experience with Micronations|journal=Transformations|issue=35|pages=119–128}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://japandaily.jp/will-secede-japans-micro-nation-boom-2573/|last=Pasion|first=Adam|date=9 February 2016|title=The Will to Secede: Japan's Micro-nation Boom|work=Japan Daily}}</ref>