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