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Shinohata: Portrait of a Japanese Village
Shinohata Portrait of a Japanese Village Author:Ronald Philip Dore 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 ... more »of working the land. Dore comments on the effects of the 1993 election?Shinohata in a non-LDP-governed Japan.« less