TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Donald C.
TI  - Ogata-mura: sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village 
SN  - 9780857455260
AV  - GN635.J2 W66 2012eb
U1  - 306.0952 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Japan
KW  - Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Community life
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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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