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   Farmers’ Movements
   Labor Movement
   Labor Disputes
   May Day
   Leftwing Publications / Marxism
   Leftwing Theater & Art



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Farmers’ Movements
Farmers’ Movements
Eight Topical Galleries

   1928 General Election
   Political Parties
   Farmers’ Movements
   Labor Movement
   Labor Disputes
   May Day
   Leftwing Publications / Marxism
   Leftwing Theater & Art



Although the Japanese economy expanded rapidly in the early decades of the 20th century, the bulk of this growth was associated with industrialization and urbanization. A glaring gap emerged between rural and urban income levels, and by the 1920s many tenant farmers who found themselves confronted with increasing debt and hardship were receptive to appeals for radical reform—as vividly conveyed in these posters covering from 1926 to 1936. The prospect of renewed grassroots protests in the countryside was one reason that U.S. occupation forces hastened to introduce sweeping land reform after Japan’s defeat in 1945.
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