Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Donald C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012.
Temas:
Ethnology > Japan > Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Agriculture > Social aspects > Japan > Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Community life > Japan > Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Agriculture > Social aspects.
Community life.
Economic history.
Ethnology.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan) > Social conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan) > Economic conditions.
Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan) > Politics and government.
Japan > Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857455260
0857455265

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