Farmers and Village Life in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Nishida, Yoshiaki; Waswo, Ann

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a range of work that seeks to move beyond stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135786113
• Artikelnr.: 38245602

Autorenporträt

Ann Waswo is Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford, a member of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. Professor Nishida Yoshiaki is Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo and Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Kanazawa University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 Dimensions of change in twentieth-century rural Japan 3
The women of rural Japan: an overview of the twentieth century 4 The impact
of the local improvement movement on farmers and rural communities 5 In
search of equity: Japanese tenant unions in the 1920s 6 Building the model
village: rural revitalization and the Great Depression 7 Securing
prosperity and serving the nation: Japanese farmers and Manchuria, 1931-33
8 Colonies and countryside in wartime Japan 9 Part-time farming and the
structure of agriculture in postwar Japan 10 Local conceptions of land and
land use and the reform of Japanese agriculture 11 Agricultural public
works and the changing mentality of Japanese farmers in the postwar era 12
Organic farming settlers in Kumano 13 Whither rural Japan?