Dimensions of change in twentieth-century rural Japan / women of rural Japan: an overview of the twentieth century / impact of the local improvement movement on farmers and rural communities / In search of equity: Japanese tenant unions in the 1920s / Building the model village: rural revitalization and the Great Depression / Securing prosperity and serving the nation: Japanese farmers and Manchuria, 1931-33 / Colonies and countryside in wartime Japan / Part-time farming and the structure of agriculture in postwar Japan / Local conceptions of land and land use and the reform of Japanese agriculture / Agricultural public works and the changing mentality of Japanese farmers in the postwar era / Organic farming settlers in Kumano / Whither rural Japan?