Farmers and Village Life in Japan

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.

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.

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?