Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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