Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan

Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan
Title Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan PDF eBook
Author Nicole L. Freiner
Publisher Springer
Pages 188
Release 2018-09-19
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3319914308

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This book chronicles Japan’s rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese. It argues that current agricultural policy as well as the tightening relationship between the US and Japan is a death sentence for a traditional lifestyle that is vital to Japan’s notion of national identity. The project covers recent agricultural policies, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and its potential consequences on Japan’s food sovereignty and documents the effect of these policies on rice farmers. This volume is ideal for those interested in Japan’s agricultural policies and rural and traditional Japanese lifestyle.

Japan's Rice Policy

Japan's Rice Policy
Title Japan's Rice Policy PDF eBook
Author William T. Coyle
Publisher
Pages 36
Release 1981
Genre Rice trade
ISBN

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Extract: In this report the origin and nature of each component of Japan's rice policy is described. Pricing policy, diversion programs, and surplus disposal programs are detailed in separate sections. The final section outlines the impact of each on U.S. agricultural trade with Japan in 1980.

Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime

Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime
Title Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime PDF eBook
Author Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 258
Release 2006
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0415366666

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This book charts the changes in Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period and looks at the level at which such policy is designed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to protect its own interventionist powers

Handbook on Rice Policy for Asia

Handbook on Rice Policy for Asia
Title Handbook on Rice Policy for Asia PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Pages 51
Release 2012
Genre Rice trade
ISBN 9712202852

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Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime

Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime
Title Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime PDF eBook
Author Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 258
Release 2012-11-12
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1134211856

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Written by the world’s leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both domestic and external pressures for reform began to intensify. The author explains how the MAFF has safeguarded their institutional capacity to intervene by accommodating both public interest in agricultural policy reform alongside the interests of government in maintaining agricultural support and protection. The book provides a major reinterpretation of agricultural policy, examining how the MAFF’s role as an ‘intervention maximiser’ has been redefined in the face of continued bureaucratic involvement. Making available in English for the first time Japanese policy changes in the post-war period, the book will appeal to political economy specialists and political scientists, and those with an interest in Japanese politics and bureaucratic institutions.

Rice as Self

Rice as Self
Title Rice as Self PDF eBook
Author Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 198
Release 1994-11-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1400820979

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Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.

Betting on the Farm

Betting on the Farm
Title Betting on the Farm PDF eBook
Author Patricia L. Maclachlan
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 256
Release 2022-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501762141

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Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nationwide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adapting coop strategies to changing market incentives. Some coops have adapted more successfully than others. In Betting on the Farm, Patricia L. Maclachlan and Kay Shimizu attribute these differences to three sets of local variables: resource endowments and product-specific market conditions, coop leadership, and the organization of farmer-members behind new coop strategies. Using in-depth case studies and profiles of different types of farmers, Betting on the Farm also explores the evolution of the formal and informal institutional foundations of postwar agriculture; the electoral sources of JA's influence; the interactive effects of economic liberalization and demographic pressures (an aging farm population and acute shortage of farm successors) on the propensity for change within the farm sector; and the diversification of Japan's traditional farm households and the implications for farmer ties with JA.