Hanno Jentzsch - Harvesting state support : institutional change and local agency in Japanese agriculture

JAPAN AND GLOBAL SOCIETY

Editors: AKIRA IRIYE, Harvard University; MASATO KIMURA, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation; DAVID A. WELCH, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo

How has Japan shaped, and been shaped by, globalization politically, economically, socially, and culturally? How has its identity, and how have its objectives, changed? Japan and Global Society explores Japans past, present, and future interactions with the Asia Pacific and the world from a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and through diverse paradigmatic lenses. Titles in this series are intended to showcase international scholarship on Japan and its regional neighbours that will appeal to scholars in disciplines both in the humanities and the social sciences.

Japan and Global Society is supported by generous grants from the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation and the University of MissouriSt. Louis.

Editorial Advisory Board

Frederick R. Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Donnelly, University of Toronto

Joel Glassman, University of MissouriSt. Louis

Izumi Koide, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation

Gil Latz, Portland State University

Michael A. Schneider, Knox College

Patricia G. Steinhoff, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Patricia Wetzel, Portland State University

For a list of books published in the series, see page .

HANNO JENTZSCH

Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

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Japan and Global Society

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Harvesting state support : institutional change and local agency in Japanese agriculture / Hanno Jentzsch.

Names: Jentzsch, Hanno, 1983, author.

Series: Japan and global society.

Description: Series statement: Japan and global society | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200411039 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200411063 | ISBN 9781487508548 (cloth) | ISBN 9781487538477 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781487525927 (PDF)

Subjects: LCSH: Agriculture and state Japan. | LCSH: Local government Japan. | LCSH: Farms Japan. | LCSH: Agriculture, Cooperative Japan.

Classification: LCC HD2093 .J46 2021 | DDC 338.1/852 dc23

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

ABL Agricultural Basic Law

AC Agricultural Committee

ALL Agricultural Land Law

ar are, measure of area, 100 square meters, or 1/100 hectare

DPJ Democratic Party of Japan

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

gentan gentan seisaku, Rice Acreage Reduction Policy

ha hectare, measure of area, 10,000 square meters, or 100 ares

JA Japan Agriculture, Organization of Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan, abbreviation referring either to the Organization of Agricultural Cooperatives as a whole or to local cooperative branches

JA Zench Zenkoku Ngy Kyd Kumiai Chkai, Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan

JA Zenn Zenkoku Ngy Kyd Kumiai Rengokai, National Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan

LDP Liberal Democratic Party

MAFF Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries

MIC Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication

NBL New (Agricultural) Basic Law, replaced the ABL in 2000

Nky Ngy Kyd Kumiai, abbreviation referring either to the Organization of Agricultural Cooperatives as a whole or to local cooperative branches; renamed JA in 1992 (see above)

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PRIMAFF Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries

PSE Producer support estimate, measure used by the OECD to calculate total support for agricultural producers

SMD(-PR) single-member districts (and proportional representation), mode for lower house elections in Japan, first used in the general election in 1996

SNTV(-MMD) single non-transferable vote (in multi-member districts), mode for lower house elections in postwar Japan, 194793

TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership

URAA Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture

VofC varieties of capitalism

WTO World Trade Organization

University of Toronto Press, in cooperation with the University of MissouriSt. Louis and the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation of Tokyo, has launched an ambitious new series, Japan and Global Society. The volumes in the series explore how Japan has defined its identities and objectives in the larger region of Asia and the Pacific and, at the same time, how the global community has been shaped by Japan and its interactions with other countries.

The dual focus on Japan and on global society reflects the series editors and publishers commitment to globalizing national studies. Scholars and readers have become increasingly aware that it makes little sense to treat a country in isolation. All countries are interdependent and shaped by cross-national forces so that mono-national studies those that examine a countrys past and present in isolation are never satisfactory. Such awareness has grown during the past few decades when global, transnational phenomena and forces have gained prominence. In the age of globalization, no country retains complete autonomy or freedom of action. Yet nations continue to act in pursuit of their respective national interests, which frequently results in international tensions. Financial, social, and educational policies continue to be defined domestically, with national communities as units. But transnational economic, environmental, and cultural forces always infringe upon national entities, transforming them in subtle and sometimes even violent ways. Global society, consisting of billions of individuals and their organizations, evolves and shapes national communities, even as the latter contribute to defining the overall human community.

Japan provides a particularly pertinent instance of such interaction, but this series is not limited to studies of that country alone. Indeed, the books published in the series will show that there is little unique about Japan, whose history has been shaped by interactions with China, Korea, the United States, and many other countries. For this reason, forthcoming volumes will deal with countries in the Asia-Pacific region and compare their respective developments and shared destinies. At the same time, some studies in the series will transcend national frameworks and discuss more transnational themes, such as humanitarianism, migration, and diseases, documenting how these phenomena affect Japan and other countries and how, at the same time, they contribute to the making of a more interdependent global society.

Lastly, we hope these studies will help to promote an understanding of non-national entities, such as regions, religions, and civilizations. Modern history continues to be examined in terms of nations as the key units of analysis, and yet these other entities have their own vibrant histories, which do not necessarily coincide with nation-centered narratives. To look at Japan, or for that matter any other country, and to examine its past and present in these alternative frameworks will enrich our understanding of modern world history and of the contemporary global civilization.