Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood.
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TextPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages)Content type: - text
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- Ethnology -- Japan -- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
- Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
- Community life -- Japan -- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan) -- Social conditions
- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan) -- Economic conditions
- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan) -- Politics and government
- 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
- Japan -- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
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- GN635.J2 W66 2012eb
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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.
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