{"product_id":"shinohata-a-portrait-of-a-japanese-village-paperback","title":"Shinohata: A Portrait of a Japanese Village - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eR. P. Dore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonald 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a marvelously intimate view into the flood of little changes that lie behind the great transformations that have swept Japan in recent times. . . . It makes enlightening, fascinating, and often amusing reading for the casual reader as for the specialist.--Edwin O. Reischauer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Dore\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex and a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his many books is \u003ci\u003eBritish Factory\/Japanese Factory\u003c\/i\u003e (California, updated edition 1990).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 7.98 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133474967687,"sku":"9780520086289","price":57.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bade6c57de1fd515c27a60a8803bbc21.webp?v=1732634622","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/shinohata-a-portrait-of-a-japanese-village-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}