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 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 the goal of creating an egalitarian farming communit…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85745-526-0
- EAN: 9780857455260
- Produktnummer: 22575923
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'821 KB
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