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Ronald Dore offers the reader insight into the changing rural life of Japan in this fascinating study of a village some 100 miles from Tokyo where he lived first in 1955 and again in the early 1970s. A new Afterword reports on the acceleration of change to a once self-sufficient community most of whose young men now commute to city jobs instead of working the land. Dore comments on the effects of the 1993 election—Shinohata in a non-LDP-governed Japan.
Price: $31.95
Pages: 332
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
18 April 1994
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.25 in
ISBN: 9780520086289
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Ronald Dore is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his many books is British Factory/Japanese Factory (California, updated edition 1990).
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Town and Country
2. Time Past
3· Farmers of the Emperor
4· Better Off
5· Work
6. Modern Farming
7. The Silken Caterpillar
8. The Search for the Alchemist's Secret
9· Couples
10. Wives, Husbands and Mothers
11. Growing-Up
12. Brothers' Keepers
13. Pleasures Shared and Pleasures Solitary
14. In the Service of Community, Nation- and Self
15. Nature and the Numinous
16. Harmony and its Tensions:
The Day the Fire Brigade Went Fishing
17. Neighbours and Equals
18. Epilogue
Afterword: 1993
Index
Preface
1. Town and Country
2. Time Past
3· Farmers of the Emperor
4· Better Off
5· Work
6. Modern Farming
7. The Silken Caterpillar
8. The Search for the Alchemist's Secret
9· Couples
10. Wives, Husbands and Mothers
11. Growing-Up
12. Brothers' Keepers
13. Pleasures Shared and Pleasures Solitary
14. In the Service of Community, Nation- and Self
15. Nature and the Numinous
16. Harmony and its Tensions:
The Day the Fire Brigade Went Fishing
17. Neighbours and Equals
18. Epilogue
Afterword: 1993
Index