Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: A Study of the Political and Economic Change in a Tohoku Village (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780824812997)

Tanohata in the 1950s was an isolated fishing village in the Tohoku region of Japan. Life there was so miserable that those who could leave did, and those who could not stayed on in a state of demoralization. By the 1980s, however, Tanohata had not only joined the mainstream of Japanese culture and economic life, but had done so with an adroitness that attracted national notice. The story of that dramatic transformation, written from the perspective of one who has both observed and participated in the changes for the last 20 years, brings into dramatic focus what is happening throughout Japan in the 20th century.

Author: Jackson H. Bailey
ISBN-10: 0824812999
ISBN-13: 9780824812997
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1991
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.24w x 0.88d