Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village

Author/Contributor(s):	Dore, R P
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	04/18/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ronald Dore offers the reader insight into the changing rural life of Japan in this fascinating study of a village some 100 miles from Tokyo where he lived first in 1955 and again in the early 1970s. A new Afterword reports on the acceleration of change to a once self-sufficient community most of whose young men now commute to city jobs instead of working the land. Dore comments on the effects of the 1993 election-Shinohata in a non-LDP-governed Japan.