Farmers And Village Life In Japan

Author : Yoshiaki Nishida,Ann Waswo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135786113

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Farmers and Village Life in Japan by Yoshiaki Nishida,Ann Waswo Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804765725

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Haruko’s World by Anonim Pdf

In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have constituted the world of the vast majority of Japanese women, as of Japanese men. The dramatic economic and demographic developments of the past two decades have orced extensive changes in the lives of Japanese farm women, many of hwom have been left virtually in charge of their family farms. This book is a study of Japanese farm women's lives in the present era: its central figure is 42-year-old Haruko, a complex, vibrant woman who both exemplifies and makes a mockery of the stereotype of Japanese women. Through Haruko we learn the work routine, family relationships, and social life of the women who are the mainstay of Japanese agriculture. Other women from Haruko's village also figure in the story, and the author's observations of them, based largely on a six-month stay with Haruko and her family in 1974-75, are supplemented with data from questionnaires and personal interviews. An epilogue recounts the author's return to Haruko's village in 1982 and describes the changes that have occurred since 1975 in the lives of Haruko's family and other village women. The book is illustrated with photographs.

Author : Penelope Francks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134207862

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Rural Economic Development in Japan by Penelope Francks Pdf

In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an alternative view of the role and significance of the rural economy in Japan’s emergence as an economic power prior to World War II. Using theories and approaches derived from development studies and economic history the book describes the nineteenth-century development of a diversified, proto-industrial rural economy, focusing on the strategies employed by households as they sought to secure and improve their livelihoods. The book argues that rural people, through their ‘industrious revolution’, played an active part in determining the course of Japan’s agrarian transition and, eventually, the distinctive features of industrial Japan’s political economy, with the result that rural life still figures largely in the reality and imagination of contemporary Japan.

Author : Tadashi Fukutake
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038903642

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Rural Society in Japan by Tadashi Fukutake Pdf

Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions.

Author : Malcolm Ritchie
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462902057

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Village Japan by Malcolm Ritchie Pdf

In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast. Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical verses, and unforgettable character studies to vividly and hauntingly evoke the rhythms of life in a traditional rural Japanese community. Underlying this portrait is the author's growing awareness that the aged inhabitants of Sora and the surrounding villages are the custodians of a fragile, barely surviving, way of life, one that is still informed by the cadences of the natural world, under the tutelage of its ancient gods. The book is a paean to a once noble culture all but effaced by Western industrial/technological materialism-the "cultural carcinogens" of the West-which Asian countries such as Japan have all too willingly embraced. Always profound and moving, Village Japan pays lyrical homage to a side of Japan rarely experienced or glimpsed by foreigners today.

Author : Nicole L. Freiner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319914305

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Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan by Nicole L. Freiner Pdf

This book chronicles Japan’s rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese. It argues that current agricultural policy as well as the tightening relationship between the US and Japan is a death sentence for a traditional lifestyle that is vital to Japan’s notion of national identity. The project covers recent agricultural policies, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and its potential consequences on Japan’s food sovereignty and documents the effect of these policies on rice farmers. This volume is ideal for those interested in Japan’s agricultural policies and rural and traditional Japanese lifestyle.

Author : Niccolò Lollini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000993578

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Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan by Niccolò Lollini Pdf

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan. The book is organised around the four key hurdles faced by new agricultural entrants: the acquisition of land and housing, farming know-how, capital, and market outlets. New farmers look with fresh eyes at agricultural issues, and their experiences provide a vantage point over the institutions shaping rural and agricultural life. The book documents the mounting problem of land and house abandonment in regional Japan, the role of agriculture in the revitalisation of rural communities, and the transformation of Japan’s agrifood system. To avoid reinforcing Japan’s exceptionalism, agricultural policy, farming practices, and fresh food distribution are analysed from a comparative perspective, shedding new light on processes of agrarian change in developed market economies. Providing an in-depth insight into pro-rural migration in the face of Japan’s shrinking regions and its declining agricultural sector, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese society, agrarian policy, and rural sociology.

Author : Ronald Dore
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307831934

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Shinohata by Ronald Dore Pdf

Not many foreigners have the chance to live in a Japanese village, certainly not foreigners who are sufficiently at home to do so as unobtrusively and intimately as the author of this book. Ronald Dore went to Shinohata twenty years ago when he was studying the land reform which broke the power of Japan's landlords. He went back many times thereafter to stay with friends. Now he has distilled his memories, field notes, diaries, and some recent forays with a tape recorder into a book which brings to life the village and its people, and vividly portrays the stunning transformation of Japanese village life. Shinohatais a story of extraordinary change from the traditional values and relationships to typically modern pursuits and aspirations that accompanied the post-war prosperity. Ronald Dore's gift for combining a sympathetic, and often humorous, response to unique individuals with the sociologist's ability to discern and analyze patterns make this an unusual and fascinating book.

Author : Nagatsuka Takashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136902277

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The Soil by Nagatsuka Takashi Pdf

This is a selection of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists. Master of the marionette and popular dramas, he had, until the publication of this book, remained unknown to western readers owing to the difficulty of translating the work into English. The introduction provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Japanese drama which will assist the reader in better understanding the plays.

Author : Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ehime-ken (Japan)
ISBN : OCLC:1035148780

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Haruko's World by Gail Lee Bernstein Pdf

In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have constituted the world of the vast majority of Japanese women, as of Japanese men. The dramatic economic and demographic developments of the past two decades have forced extensive changes in the lives of Japanese farm women, many of whom have been left virtually in charge of their family farms. This book is a study of Japanese farm women's lives in the present era. Its central figure is 42-year-old Haruko, a complex, vibrant woman who both exemplifies and makes a mockery of the stereotype of Japanese women. Through Haruko we learn the work routine, family relationships, and social life of the women who are the mainstay of Japanese agriculture. Other women from Haruko's village also figure in the story, and the author's observations of them, based largely on a six-month stay with Haruko and her family in 1974-75, are supplemented with data from questionnaires and personal interviews. An epilogue recounts the author's return to Haruko's village in 1982 and describes the changes that have occurred since 1975 in the lives of Haruko's family and other village women.

Author : Simon Partner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520240971

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Toshié by Simon Partner Pdf

Annotation A broad, richly textured social history of the Japanese countryside from the 1920s to the present. told through the life of one woman and her community.

Author : Okpyo Moon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0719029570

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From Paddy Field to Ski Slope by Okpyo Moon Pdf

Author : Japan. Naimushō. Chihōkyoku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89098630882

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The Rural Life of Japan by Japan. Naimushō. Chihōkyoku Pdf

Author : Thomas C. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Family farms
ISBN : OCLC:311971320

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Nakahara by Thomas C. Smith Pdf

Author : Donald C. Wood
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857455246

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Ogata-Mura by Donald C. Wood Pdf

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 the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the settlers became divided into political factions that to this day continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura's development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village's economic transformations while addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and regional levels.