| Titre | Les campagnes japonaises et l'emprise urbaine | |
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| Auteur | Augustin Berque | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 49-50, 1973 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | L'urbanisation des campagnes |
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| Page | 321-352 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Japanese Countryside and Urban Ascendancy.
With the help of population statistics and information on vegetable, fruit and meat production and consumption, the author describes the plight of the Japanese farmer who, confronted with government measures to prevent overproduction, attempts to change his agricultural practices. The ensuing economic uncertainty has been responsible, in recent years, for the severe depopulation of the Japanese countryside and for the proletarization of the peasants forced to seek urban employment. This massive exodus has transformed not only the physiognomy of rural Japan (the reduction of cultivated surfaces, the increase of housing and industrial developments) but also the attitudes and practices of the remaining farmers who, from lack of motivation, let their production decline. After treating the problems caused by the sclerosis of agrarian structures and by land speculation in periurban areas, the author describes the forms and consequences of "integration". This phenomenon results from the development of industrialized agricultural companies whose national even international economic importance means extinction to traditional Japanese peasantry. In conclusion, the author defines three factors instrumental in changing urban/rural relations over the past 15 years: the quality of Japanese economic expansion; the need to conform, to be assimilated which characterizes Japanese society; the expression, in terms of spatial organization, of this desire for similarity. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1973_num_49_1_1875 |
