Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Jap

Annotation A broad, richly textured social history of the Japanese countryside from the 1920s to the present. told through the life of one woman and her communi

Sakaue Toshie was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor

In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an

In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits an