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...-in (Senate) of 1875. This paper is the result of research undertaken in the academic year 1952-53 at the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies at Okayama, Japan, made possible through support by the Social Science Research Council, the Rutgers Research Council, and the Center for Japanese...

... use of demographic data obtained from the shūmon-aratame-chō (religious investigation registers), the hypotheses that the standard of living was rising and that the Japanese were controlling population were tested for Fujito village of Okayama. The population increased from 596 to 694 between 1775...

... described above. The following amplification of the institutional origins of the modern daimyo combines this recent work of Japanese historians with data taken from the case study of a single locality: the province of Bizen, which occupies today the southeastern third of Okayama Prefecture. The history...

... on to become entrepeneurs, policemen, teachers, bureaucrats, etc. Harootunian , “ Japan and the Samurai Class ,” PHR , pp. 260 – 263 . 43 Such was the case in Okayama prefecture when the reclamation of Kojima Bay enlisted 144 former samurai, none of whom by 1876 had made a satisfactory...

... the Metropolis is an enormously wide-ranging book that seeks to treat the interrelations of all the elements—material, psychological, intellectual, political, cultural, demographic—that constituted and propelled Japan's rapid urbanization in the wake of World War I. Focusing on Niigata, Okayama, Kanazawa...

... area the present Okayama Prefecture. In attempting to explain the growth of government in Japan and how political power was organized and exercised, both locally and nationally, it examines, as any objective institutional history should, the so- 120 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES cial and economic forces...

... and is situated a quarter of a mile off-shore in the Inland Sea of Japan, some twenty-one miles southwest of Okayama City (field-station of the Center for Japanese Studies of the University of Michigan). The community is a subdivision of Shionasu on the adjacent shore and administratively part of Kojima City...

... and History. 'The research upon which this article is based was undertaken by the author as Research Associate for the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies at Okayama City, Japan, and was supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Board for Overseas Training...

... Mitsutoshi Takayanagi u , “ Genna ikkoku ichijō rei ” (The Genna law restricting one castle to a province), Shigaku zasshi , 33.11 ( 1922 ), 863 – 888 . 26 Shiyakusho Okayama v , Okayama shishi (History of Okayama) ( Okayama : Gōdō Shimbunsha , 1937 ), 3: 2042 . 27...

... that it continued to Okayama, and the case study approach is used, be a political force throughout Japanese his- only seven of the thirteen chapters are con- tory; and that the rise to political prominence cerned directly with the region. The remaining of the warrior class occurred within rather six chapters...

... Ba\umatsu po- the lack of uniformity in documentation and litical developments in Choshu and Okayama, the absence of an index. respectively. Umetani Noboru concludes that RICHARD T. CHANG the popular thesis that the Meiji Restoration Kyoto, Japan was the work of the lower samurai class in alliance...

... no Monogurafu (Monograph on a Village of Migrants) (Tokyo, 1952 ). 14 Sanson no Kōzō (The Organization of a Mountain Village) (Tokyo, 1949 ). 15 Nōson no Seikatsu: Okayama-ken Oku-gun Kasaka-mura Kitaike (Farm Village Life: Kitaike, Kasaka Village, Oku County, Okayama Prefecture...

... The last two chapters discuss Ba\umatsu po- the lack of uniformity in documentation and litical developments in Choshu and Okayama, the absence of an index. respectively. Umetani Noboru concludes that RICHARD T. CHANG the popular thesis that the Meiji Restoration Kyoto, Japan was the work of the lower...

... main work as a Fellow of the Center was to assemble and evaluate data gathered in the Center's random sample survey of villages of the Inland Sea region in Japan. Five members of the Center's staff were in residence at the Okayama Field Station during the past year. In addition, the following from...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 118 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY island. Selection of the area was made after a previous survey of all fishing communities of Okayama Prefecture coast, but nearness to Okayama City was, necessarily, also a determining factor. Following a general introduction, separate chapters...

... by that name. The latter, literally "high i s l a n d , " has an area of approximately thirty acres and is situated a quarter of a mile off-shore in the Inland Sea of Japan, some twenty-one miles southwest of Okayama City (field-station of the Center for Japanese Studies of the University of Michigan...

.... Professor Robert B. Hall, Director of the Center, returned in February from the Okayama field station. His summary of field-station work, apart from individual projects, during the past year, includes the following accomplishments: (1) Survey of 36 villages by graduate research members representing six...

... villages in the Kinai region and Okayama, presented an impressive amount of carefully analyzed quantitative evidence to show that agricultural productivity grew rapidly during the seventeenth century and that the rising output and increasing commercialization changed the lives of peasants for the better...

... with relatively ample resources and over a period of nearly seven years. The book is concerned primarily with the little rice-growing "buraku" or hamlet of Niike (24 households, 130 persons) one of the 30 buraku comprising the "mura" or village of Kamo in Okayama prefecture in the western half of Honshu...

... a period of nearly seven years. The book is concerned primarily with the little rice-growing "buraku" or hamlet of Niike (24 households, 130 persons) one of the 30 buraku comprising the "mura" or village of Kamo in Okayama prefecture in the western half of Honshu. The hamlet is in the so-called "Core Zone...