TY - BOOK ID - 78139540 TI - Farmers and village life in twentieth-century Japan AU - Waswo, Ann AU - Nishida, Yoshiaki PY - 2003 SN - 0203417720 1280071397 020341974X 1135786127 9780203417720 9781135786120 070071748X 9780700717484 0415406234 9780415406239 9786610071395 661007139X 9781135786076 1135786070 9781135786113 1135786119 9781280071393 PB - London New York RoutledgeCurzon DB - UniCat KW - Farm life KW - Villages KW - Farmers KW - Farm operators KW - Operators, Farm KW - Planters (Persons) KW - Agriculturists KW - Rural population KW - Hamlets (Villages) KW - Village government KW - Cities and towns KW - Rural life KW - Country life KW - History KW - J4166 KW - J4196 KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities, social classes and groups -- farmers, peasants KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- rural communities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139540 AB - Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Japanese agriculture since the 1960s has been treated as an artificial creation sustained only by protectionism of the worst sort.This book presents a range of original, in-depth work, including work by Japanese scholars, that seeks to move beyond such stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present. ER -