Farmers and village life in twentieth-century Japan / edited by Ann Waswo and Nishida Yoshiaki.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Dimensions of change in twentieth-century rural Japan / Nishida Yoshiaki -- The women of rural Japan: an overview of the twentieth century / Okado Masakatsu -- The impact of the local improvement movement on farmers and rural communities / Tsutsui Masao -- In search of equity: Japanese tenant unions in the 1920s / Ann Waswo -- Building the model village: rural revitalization and the Great Depression / Kerry Smith -- Securing prosperity and serving the nation: Japanese farmers and Manchuria, 1931-33 / Sandra Wilson -- Colonies and countryside in wartime Japan / Mori Takemaro -- Part-time farming and the structure of agriculture in postwar Japan / Raymond A. Jussaume, Jr. -- Local conceptions of land and land use and the reform of Japanese agriculture / Iwamoto Noriaki -- Agricultural public works and the changing mentality of Japanese farmers in the postwar era / Kase Kazutoshi -- Organic farming settlers in Kumano / John Knight -- Whither rural Japan? / Nishida Yoshiaki, Ann Waswo.

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.

English.

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