Books by Simon Partner

Aizawa Kikutaro was born into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, an agricultural village specializing in wheat and silk. Taking the biography of this villager as its focus and incorporating details of life drawn from Aizawa's diary, this book chronicles the transformation of Hashimoto against the background of Japan's rapid industrialization.

Presents the social history of the Japanese countryside in its twentieth-century transition from 'peasant' to 'consumer' society. This book features an account of the life of one village woman and her community caught up in the inexorable march of historical events.