Farmers and village life in twentieth-century Japan [electronic resource] / edited by Ann Waswo and Nishida Yoshiaki. - London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. - xii, 296 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Farm life--History--Japan--20th century.
Villages--History--Japan--20th century.
Farmers--History--Japan--20th century.


Electronic books.

HT421 / .F348 2003

307.76/2/0952