Ogata-Mura : : Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village / / Donald C. Wood.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian Anthropologies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Village and the Issues
- 1 Agricultural Policy and Regional Politics in Japan
- 2 Reclamation and the Old Social Order
- 3 The Storm and the Aftermath
- 4 Rice: Alliances, Institutions, Frictions
- 5 Politics and the New Social Order
- 6 What Can We Learn from Ogata-mura?
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index