Contents


Chapter 1 Changes of Women, Families and Agriculture in Rural Japan
　1. Trends of Japanese Farming Families and Farm Management
　2. Change and Problems Regarding Women Farmers in Japan
　3. The Characteristics and the Challenges of Rural Women’s
　　　Entrepreneurial Activities in Japan

Chapter 2 Network and Socioeconomic Activity of Women
　1. Network of Female New Farmers in Japan Who Come from
　　the Non-agricultural Sector
　2. How Rural Women’s Entrepreneurship drawn from Life Improvement
　　Practice Group Developed:A Case Study on Tochigi and Nagano,Japan
　3. Issues and Characteristics of the Economic Activities by
　　Women in Japanese Farming Villages: From the Examination of
　　a Business Establishment Process
　4. Background and Factors Promoting the Empowerment of Women in
　　the Rural Society of Japan

Chapter 3 Women Balancing Family and Farming
　1. Maternity Leave for Farmers and the Potentiality of
　　the Family Management Agreement in Japan
　2. Mother and Daughter-in-law Dyads in Farming Families Executing
　　the Family Management Agreement
　3. Experimental Study on Work Life Balance of Women Farmers in Japan


Chapter 4 The Roles of Female Farmers
　1. Can Farm Women’s Activities Reconstruct the Community?
　2. The Social Norm and the Awareness of the Constraints of
　　Rural Women in Japan
　3. Career Formation of Farming Women and Agricultural Policy in
　　Postwar Japan: A case of Katsunuma Town
　4. Effects of the Family Management Agreement on Gender Equality

Chapter 5 Family Strategy on Succession and Family Farm Management
　1. New Trends in Stem-families Succession in Rural Japan:
　　A case of Katsunuma Town
　2. Property Inheritance of Farming Families
　3. Family Strategy in Farm Succession:A Case of Farming Families
　　Executing the Family Agreement in Takasaki City

Chapter 6 Today’s Subsistence Production and Agro-food Initiatives in Japan
　1. The Present Situation of Local Supply and Consumption of
　　Agricultural Products from the Aspect of Acquisition and
　　Utilization by Local People
　2. Alternative Agro-food Movement in Contemporary Japan

Afterword
index