Resistance to Japanese rice policy
1993; Elsevier BV; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0962-6298(93)90058-f
ISSN1873-5096
Autores Tópico(s)China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
ResumoAbstract Hachirōgata Land Reclamation Project, which is located in Akita Prefecture, in the rice belt of Japan, was planned to be Japan's model rice project. Policies devised to stop the oversupply of domestic rice in the early 1970s curtailed rice production nationally as well as at Hachirōgata. This article attempts to define the process of resistance to Japanese rice policy at Hachirōgata from the early 1970s to the present. Two local groups formed, each of which held a different approach to opposing national rice policy. One group began by black marketing rice without government subsidies and now favors international free trade on rice. The other group favors a modified protectionist policy which it claims is morally justified. These local approaches to resisting rice policy have attracted the attention of Japanese policy-makers and also provide an excellent opportunity for the analysis of the process and modes of resistance.
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