By Yoshiaki Nishida, Ann Waswo
Rural Japan through the 20th century has been portrayed as an enormous reservoir of conservatism in a lot of the literature on Japan's glossy improvement, and eastern agriculture because the Nineteen Sixties has been handled as a synthetic production sustained in simple terms through protectionism of the worst style. This publication provides various unique, in-depth paintings, together with paintings via jap students, that seeks to maneuver past such stereotypes to bare the range and complexities of rural existence in Japan from 1900 to the current.
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Another reason was that, while some tenant farmers opted, as had the Nishiyamas, to attempt to ride out the depression by increasing their cash income from non-agricultural sources, others remained focused on securing rent reductions on the plots of land they cultivated. Such differing survival strategies, not to mention the success of some at new cash-generating activities and the failure – and increasing indebtedness – of others, made it difficult for tenant farmers in any one community to agree on what steps to take.
1977. ’ In ‘Zenji nisshi’ kaidai 7, ed. Toyohara kenky¨kai. Tokyo: Tøkyø daigaku shuppankai. Change in twentieth-century rural Japan 37 1111 2111 3 4 5111 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5111 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 1 2111 Toyohara kenky¨kai. 1977. Zenji nisshi – Yamagata ken Shønai heiya ni okeru ichi nømin no nisshi, Meiji 26–Shøwa 9 nen. Tokyo: Tøkyø daigaku shuppankai. Usami Shigeru. 1977a. ’ In ‘Zenji nisshi’ kaidai 1, ed. Toyohara kenky¨kai. Tokyo: Tøkyø daigaku shuppankai.
In ‘Zenji nisshi’ kaidai 7, ed. Toyohara kenky¨kai. Tokyo: Tøkyø daigaku shuppankai. Change in twentieth-century rural Japan 37 1111 2111 3 4 5111 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3111 4 5 6 7 8 9 20111 1 2 3 4 5111 6 7 8 9 30111 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40111 1 2111 Toyohara kenky¨kai. 1977. Zenji nisshi – Yamagata ken Shønai heiya ni okeru ichi nømin no nisshi, Meiji 26–Shøwa 9 nen. Tokyo: Tøkyø daigaku shuppankai. Usami Shigeru. 1977a. ’ In ‘Zenji nisshi’ kaidai 1, ed. Toyohara kenky¨kai. Tokyo: Tøkyø daigaku shuppankai.