Ogata-Mura NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines

Ogata-Mura NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & ShorelinesFollowing the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japans rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen thousand hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a

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intimate labour and bioprecarity

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partly compensatory nursing

personality and work of this once-famous Victorian scholar and churchman

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The China trade was one of the catalysts propelling this transformation and it is crucial to a better understanding of how and why these changes took place

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Edward Prendick is rescued from a damaged ship and brought to a small island where an infamous doctor performs a series of experiments on animals

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