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Comparative Agrarian History Lab
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The lab reads the history of food and agriculture in Japan and around the world through the lens of historical studies.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about food and agriculture through history.
The Comparative Agrarian History Lab studies issues of food, environment, and agriculture in modern Japan and the world from the perspective of history.
The lab believes that understanding food and agriculture, which are directly tied to people's lives, requires clarifying the distinctive characteristics of each region that have been shaped over the course of history.
The lab conducts research on Japan, East Asia, and Europe (mainly Germany), keeping a comparative perspective in mind.
For undergraduates, it is one of the labs that students in the Department of Food and Environmental Economics are assigned to. At the graduate level, it accepts students in the Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture.
Key terms
- Agricultural treatise (nosho)
- A book, such as those written in the Edo period, that sets out farming methods and guidance for farmers.
- Land reform
- A reform that fundamentally changes how land is held, such as the relationship between landlords and tenant farmers.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies issues of food, environment, and agriculture in modern Japan and the world from a historical perspective. Using a comparative history approach, it clarifies how farming methods, farm management, land systems, and agricultural policy relate to one another.
*Illustrative imageFood and Agricultural History by Region
The lab clarifies how farming methods, farm management, land systems, and agricultural policy relate to one another in each region. It has produced results in areas such as comparative analysis of early modern agricultural treatises, the history of farm management, the history of farmers' movements in the interwar period, and the comparative history of postwar land reform.
*Illustrative imageAgricultural Development in Postwar Japan and Europe
The lab has carried out joint research that views 20th-century agricultural history from the perspective of resource development. It is now trying to clarify the process of agricultural development in Japan and Europe after World War II from a more global, environmental-history perspective.
*Illustrative imageAgricultural Policy and Agrarian Thought in Modern Japan
Professor Ito studies the history of agricultural policy in modern Japan and of the thought surrounding it.
*Illustrative imageHistory of Girls' Education in Rural Areas
Associate Professor Tokuyama studies the history of girls' education in rural communities of modern Japan.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Comparative Agrarian History Lab are faculty and students in the doctoral and master's programs.
- ProfessorAtsushi Ito
- Associate ProfessorRinko Tokuyama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Farmers of forty centuries - Japanese family gathering and threshing barley” Unknown photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Food and Agricultural History by Region: “Farmers of forty centuries - Japanese farmers harvesting rice with sickles” Unknown photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Agricultural Development in Postwar Japan and Europe: “1950s Massey Ferguson Pony tractors - geograph.org.uk - 5494771” Evelyn Simak / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Agricultural Policy and Agrarian Thought in Modern Japan: “Farmers of forty centuries - station grounds and buildings, Fukuoka Experiment Station, Japan (3)” Unknown photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- History of Girls' Education in Rural Areas: “Noshiro Practical Girls' High School, Akita, Japan, Sewing Class 1916” 能代実科高等女学校 Noshiro Practical Girls' High School / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Principles of Agricultural Science Lab): “Hida Folk Village - HidaFolkVillage6457” lumoplank / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (International Rural Development Lab): “Selling food in a village in Zambia (5)” Hanay / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Economics and Policy Lab): “Forest in Okuchichibu Mountains 01” Σ64 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Regional Environmental Economics Lab): “Terada-Pond-Kakogawa” Hasec / CC0 (cropped)
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