Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan The Loss of a Traditional Lifestyle /

• Main Author: Freiner, Nicole L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Political economy.; Japan-History.; Asia-Politics and government.; Anthropology.; Comparative politics.; Ethnology-Asia.; International Political Economy.; History of Japan.; Asian Politics.; Comparative Politics.; Asian Culture.

This book chronicles Japan's rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese. It argues that current agricultural policy as well as the tightening relationship between the US and Japan is a death sentence for a traditi...