Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Dimensions of change in twentieth-century rural Japan; The women of rural Japan: an overview of the twentieth century; The impact of the local improvement movement on farmers and rural communities; In search of equity: Japanese tenant unions in the 1920s; Building the model village: rural revitalization and the Great Depression; Securing prosperity and serving the nation: Japanese farmers and Manchuria, 1931 33; Colonies and countryside in wartime Japan
Summary
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
