Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-304) and index.
Rethinking rural Japan -- The nineteenth century : the establishment of the diversified rural economy -- Rural economic growth in the nineteenth century -- The rural economy and the household -- Power, policy and resistance in the nineteenth-century countryside -- The agrarian transition, 1890-1920 -- The rural economy and urban industrialization -- The household and the village in transition -- The agrarian question : the rural economy and the state -- The inter-war years : crisis and modernization -- The 'rural problem' of the inter-war period -- The rural household and the agricultural adjustment problem -- The rural dream -- Rural Japan rethought.
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This important book outlines the development of the rural economy in Japan from pre-industrial times up to the Pacific War. It demonstrates that agriculture was by no means the only economic activity taking place in Japan's rural areas; that Japanese rural households can best be understood not as passive victims of outside forces, sometimes engaging in individual and community resistance; that rural households responded positively and imaginatively to the issues of agricultural adjustment, becoming "modernized", but not in ways that substituted technology for labor or that achieved economies of scale; and that this agrarian transition, which was quite different from agrarian transitions in many other countries, laid the foundations for the shape of the rural economy during the high economic growth period and during the second half of the twentieth century.
Agriculture and state-- Japan.
15.75 history of Asia.
Agriculture and state-- Japan-- History.
Agriculture and state.
Economic development-- Japan-- History.
Landbouw.
Ländlicher Raum
Landwirtschaft
Rural conditions.
Rural development-- Japan-- 19th century, Cross-cultural studies.