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The peasant soul of Japan
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ISBN: 0333443535 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Macmillan

Farmers and village life in twentieth-century Japan
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ISBN: 0203417720 1280071397 020341974X 1135786127 9780203417720 9781135786120 070071748X 9780700717484 0415406234 9780415406239 9786610071395 661007139X 9781135786076 1135786070 9781135786113 1135786119 9781280071393 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon

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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.


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Ogata-mura : Sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village
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ISBN: 9781785330445 1785330446 9780857455246 0857455249 0857455265 128390246X Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Berghahn

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Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and th


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Peasant protests and uprisings in Tokugawa Japan
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ISBN: 0520046145 Year: 1986 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press


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Urban migrants in rural Japan
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ISBN: 9781438478050 1438478054 9781438478067 1438478062 9781438478074 1438478070 Year: 2020 Publisher: Albany

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2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleUrban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of individuals who relocate from urban to rural areas and seek new modes of working and living, this multisited ethnography reveals the changing role of rurality, from postwar notions of a stagnant backwater to contemporary sites of experimentation. The individual cases presented in the book vividly illustrate changing lifestyles and perceptions of work. What emerges from Urban Migrants in Rural Japan is the emotionally fraught quest of many individuals for a personally fulfilling lifestyle and the conflicting neoliberal constraints many settlers face. In fact, flexibility often coincides with precarity and self-exploitation. Susanne Klien shows how mobility serves as a strategic mechanism for neophytes in rural Japan who hedge their bets; gain time; and seek assurance, inspiration, and courage to do (or further postpone doing) what they ultimately feel makes sense to them.

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