Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project
to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation
of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a
seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the
village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the
lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were
brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new
breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however,
the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice
fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was
threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the
settlers became divided into political factions that to this day
continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen
years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura's
development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive
ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation,
agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal
social effects of the village's economic transformations while
addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and
regional levels.
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