Harvesting State Support

Hanno Jentzsch is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna.

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgments

Part One: Introduction: Institutional Change in Japan’s Agricultural Sector
1. Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime
2. Toward a Local Perspective on Gradual Institutional Change
3. Institutional Change in Japanese Agricultural Support and Protection through the Local Lens

Part Two: Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection over Time
4. Postwar Evolution of Support and Protection
5. Gradual Change and Increasing Institutional Ambiguity in Agricultural Support and Protection

Part Three: Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions
6. Different Local Manifestations of Macro-Level Change
7. Postwar Formation of Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions

Part Four: Village Institutions as Dynamic Resources – Local Renegotiation of Agricultural Support and Protection
8. Farmland Consolidation as a Social Process
9. Local Variations of Agricultural Entrepreneurship
10. Hamlet-Based Collective Farming and Village Institutions
11. Boundary Change: Decreasing Prospects for Comprehensive Local Institutional Agency

Part Five: Conclusions
12. Renegotiating Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection
13. Institutional Change through the Local Lens

Appendix A: Field Research
Appendix B: Interviews
Appendix C: Types of Farms in Japan
Appendix D: Paddy Field Subsidies
Notes
References
Index