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Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan
By Ann Waswo, Nishida Yoshiaki
312 pages
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- Routledge Curzon
- Place of publication:
- New York
- Publication year:
- 2003
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Synopsis
Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Japanese agriculture since the 1960s has been treated as an artificial creation sustained only by protectionism of the worst sort. This book presents a range of original, in-depth work, including work by Japanese scholars, that seeks to move beyond such stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to ...
Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Japanese agriculture since the 1960s has been treated as an artificial creation sustained only by protectionism of the worst sort. This book presents a range of original, in-depth work, including work by Japanese scholars, that seeks to move beyond such stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments xi
- 1 - Introduction 1
- 2 - Dimensions of Change in Twentieth-Century Rural Japan 7
- References 36
- 3 - The Women of Rural Japan 38
- References 59
- 4 - The Impact of the Local Improvement Movement on Farmers and Rural Communities 60
- References 77
- 5 - In Search of Equity 79
- 6 - Building the Model Village 126
- References 154
- 7 - Securing Prosperity and Serving the Nation 156
- 8 - Colonies and Countryside in Wartime Japan 175
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments xi
- 1 - Introduction 1
- 2 - Dimensions of Change in Twentieth-Century Rural Japan 7
- References 36
- 3 - The Women of Rural Japan 38
- References 59
- 4 - The Impact of the Local Improvement Movement on Farmers and Rural Communities 60
- References 77
- 5 - In Search of Equity 79
- 6 - Building the Model Village 126
- References 154
- 7 - Securing Prosperity and Serving the Nation 156
- 8 - Colonies and Countryside in Wartime Japan 175
- References 197
- 9 - Part-Time Farming and the Structure of Agriculture in Postwar Japan 199
- References 218
- 10 - Local Conceptions of Land and Land Use and the Reform of Japanese Agriculture 221
- References 242
- 11 - Agricultural Public Works and the Changing Mentality of Japanese Farmers in the Postwar Era 244
- 12 - Organic Farming Settlers in Kumano 267
- References 283
- 13 - Whither Rural Japan? 285
- References 292
- Index 293