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"This book presents a marvelously intimate view into the flood of little changes that lie behind the great transformations that have swept Japan in recent times. . . . It makes enlightening, fascinating, and often amusing reading for the casual reader as for the specialist."—Edwin O. Reischauer
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
A study of a village some 100 miles from Tokyo where the author lived first in 1955 and again in the early 1970s. It offers the reader insight into the rural life of Japan. It comments on the effects of the 1993 election - Shinohata in a non-LDP-governed Japan.
