Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village /
Wood, Donald C.,
Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood. - New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and th.
9780857455260 (electronic bk.) 0857455265 (electronic bk.)
421496 MIL 22573/ctt7hzs0x JSTOR
Ethnology--Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Agriculture--Social aspects--Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Community life--Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
Agriculture--Social aspects.
Community life.
Economic history.
Ethnology.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)--Social conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)--Economic conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)--Politics and government.
Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Electronic books.
GN635.J2 / W66 2012eb
306.0952
Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood. - New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and th.
9780857455260 (electronic bk.) 0857455265 (electronic bk.)
421496 MIL 22573/ctt7hzs0x JSTOR
Ethnology--Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Agriculture--Social aspects--Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Community life--Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
Agriculture--Social aspects.
Community life.
Economic history.
Ethnology.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)--Social conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)--Economic conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)--Politics and government.
Japan--Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Electronic books.
GN635.J2 / W66 2012eb
306.0952