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Sakaue Toshié 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, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition. Toshié is the story of that extraordinary transformation as witnessed and experienced by Toshié herself. A sweeping social history of the Japanese countryside in its twentieth-century transition from "peasant" to "consumer" society, the book is also a richly textured account of the life of one village woman and her community caught up in the inexorable march of historical events.
Through the lens of Toshié's life, Simon Partner shows us the realities of rural Japanese life during the 1930s depression; daily existence under the wartime regime of "spiritual mobilization"; the land reform and its consequences during occupation; and the rapid emergence of a consumer culture against the background of agricultural mechanization during the 1950s and 1960s. In some ways representative and in other ways unique, Toshié's narrative raises questions about conventional frameworks of twentieth-century Japanese history, and about the place of individual agency and choice in an era often seen as dominated by the impersonal forces of modernity: technology, state power, and capitalism.
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"Within the lively and often gripping story of Sakaue Toshié and her world, Partner gives us a sweeping and thought-provoking history of social change in rural Japan and sheds new light on key developments such as war mobilization and US occupation reforms. Fresh, personal, and engaging."--Steven Ericson, author of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
"Partner beautifully tells the story of the life and times of a farm woman from the 1920s to the present. He traverses seamlessly between the often moving details of her life and the large transformations which it exemplifies."--Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
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Sakaue Toshié 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, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition. Toshié is the story of that extraordinary transformation as witnessed and experienced by Toshié herself. A sweeping social history of the Japanese countryside in its twentieth-century transition from "peasant" to "consumer" society, the book is also a richly textured account of the life of one village woman and her community caught up in the inexorable march of historical events.
Through the lens of Toshié's life, Simon Partner shows us the realities of rural Japanese life during the 1930s depression; daily existence under the wartime regime of "spiritual mobilization"; the land reform and its consequences during occupation; and the rapid emergence of a consumer culture against the background of agricultural mechanization during the 1950s and 1960s. In some ways representative and in other ways unique, Toshié's narrative raises questions about conventional frameworks of twentieth-century Japanese history, and about the place of individual agency and choice in an era often seen as dominated by the impersonal forces of modernity: technology, state power, and capitalism.
From the Inside Flap
"Within the lively and often gripping story of Sakaue Toshié and her world, Partner gives us a sweeping and thought-provoking history of social change in rural Japan and sheds new light on key developments such as war mobilization and US occupation reforms. Fresh, personal, and engaging."--Steven Ericson, author of The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan
"Partner beautifully tells the story of the life and times of a farm woman from the 1920s to the present. He traverses seamlessly between the often moving details of her life and the large transformations which it exemplifies."--Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
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On August 14, 1925, in the hamlet of Kosugi in Niigata prefecture, a child was born. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
village goes, hamlet councils, tenant movement, hundred yen, tenant disputes, thousand yen, village office, defense association Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Village Goes, Japanese Citizen, Rural Life Under the Occupation, World War, Agano River, Merry Tiller, United States, Pearl Harbor, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Culture Museum New!
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On August 14, 1925, in the hamlet of Kosugi in Niigata prefecture, a child was born. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
village goes, hamlet councils, tenant movement, hundred yen, tenant disputes, thousand yen, village office, defense association Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Village Goes, Japanese Citizen, Rural Life Under the Occupation, World War, Agano River, Merry Tiller, United States, Pearl Harbor, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Culture Museum New!
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- Valley of Darkness by Thomas R. H. Havens in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Showa: The Japan of Hirohito by Carol Gluck in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Village Japan by Richard King Beardsley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Land Reform in Japan by Ronald Dore in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sources of Japanese History- Volume Two by Lu David in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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