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

Other author Waswo, Ann.
Other author Nishida, Yoshiaki, 1940-2012.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon,
Descriptionxii, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
Farm life--Japan. --History. --20th century.
Villages--Japan. --History. --20th century.
Farmers--Japan. --History. --20th century.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2002073979
ISBN070071748X (alk. paper)