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Leaving and coming back
In many rural towns most young people leave at eighteen, for university or work in a city, and only some return. Local governments, schools and businesses try to keep ties alive: careers talks by local people, scholarships that are forgiven if the graduate comes back, and campaigns aimed at U-turners in their twenties and thirties. The usual message has shifted. Rather than urging young people to stay, many towns now tell them to go, learn and see the world, and to keep the town in mind as a place they come from and might return to. Some who leave come back with skills the town lacks — design, IT, management — as 美咲 did. The grammar of this lesson is the grammar of viewpoint: として, にとって, というより, てこそ and からすると.