Introduction -- Part I : The traditional village -- The land system -- Agricultural servants -- Labor services -- Small holdings -- The organization of political power -- Part II : The village in transition -- The growth of the market -- Agricultural technology -- The transformation of labor -- The transformation of nago -- The decline of the cooperative group -- New class relations -- Political conflict in the village -- Agrarian change and modern Japan

1. Land tenure -- Japan
2. Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Japan
3. Japan -- Rural conditions