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Japan's national identity associates the 'Japanese people' with the Japanese land, making the farmer the backbone of the nation. Others in Japanese Agriculture challenges this mythology, revealing the changing faces of Japanese farmers during the colonial and post-war eras. First, it traces the tangled trail of Koreans brought into farming villages as a result of war mobilization and capitalist development. Second, it discusses the plight of those who evacuated from cities as they attempted to eke out a living on marginal land. Third, it points out that settlers repatriated from the colonies were met with hostility from villagers and indifference from authorities. Finally, it explores how those who were encouraged to emigrate for 'the good of the nation' in post-war Japan, found themselves victims of agrarian reforms, which severed their ties. In sum, despite being lauded as the 'backbone of the nation' Japanese farmers have been repeatedly marginalized and othered.

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Author:   Kenichi Yasuoka
Publisher:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Imprint:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781925608977

ISBN 10:   1925608972
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   28 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Figures Tables Photos List of Contributors Introduction Noriko Sudo 1 Film Control in the Japan Film Law (Eiga-ho) Atsuko KATO 2 Me-istic Nationalism in Films Promoted by the Japan Self-Defense Forces: Focus on Midnight Eagle as an Example Noriko SUDO 3 Collaboration between U.S. Film Industry and U.S. Government for Film Distribution in the Republic of China Takeshi TANIKAWA 4 WWII Film Production in Chongqing: The Japanese Spy Yanli HAN 5 Factors in the Establishment of the Animation Industry in Postwar Japan Tomoya KIMURA 6 Virtuous and Depraved: Portrayals of Women in North Korean Cinema Benjamin JOINAU 7 Dual Language, Dubbed Cinema: An Enlightened Colonial Subject in Homeless Angels Youngjae YI 8 Double-edged National Imagery: From The Daughter of the Samurai to My Japan Takeshi TANIKAWA 9 The Mysterious Popularity of Japanese Films in Taiwan in the 1950s and '60s Mamie MISAWA Index

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Kenichi Yasuoka is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Letters at Osaka University. He specializes in modern Japanese history, especially focusing on peasant movements, immigration and settlement. He was born in Kobe, and after receiving his PhD in Agriculture from Kyoto University in 2011, he joined the Japanese Studies Laboratory, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University as Special Lecturer in 2015, before being appointed to his current position.

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