Culturing an agricultural crisis in Hokkaido
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Japan's Hokkaido region is popularly known as “Milkland,” underscoring the importance of the local dairy industry. Nevertheless, milk production costs in Japan are much higher than in surrounding nations and in order to bolster the domestic industry, for example justifying large subsidies, a constant “crisis state” has to be maintained by government and related agencies. In this paper I argue that the rhetoric of food security has a particular and lengthy history in Japan. It is generally communicated in terms of safety, risk, and self-sustainability, the need to protect Japan and Japanese from a series of ever-contingent threats both real and imagined. Concomitantly, there are essential misunderstandings between governmental agencies and dairy farmers rooted in the different identities and livelihoods that arise in “culturing” differing agricultures. As a result, official agencies claiming to protect the dairy industry in fact, through a mix of nationalist imagination and bio-scientific ignorance, work against it.
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Forty percent of Japan's dairy production originates in Hokkaidō, and the quintessential Hokkaidō farmer is not the rice farmer associated with the mainland but the dairy farmer.
“Forty percent of Japan's dairy production originates in Hokkaid ō, and the quintessential Hokkaid ō farmer is not the rice farmer associated with the mainland but the dairy farmer (Hansen 2014).”
From Partaking of Life: Buddhism, Meat-Eating, and Sacrificial Discourses of Gratitude in Contemporary Japan (2019) · cites this paper as Hansen 2014
Most contemporary dairy farms in Japan, concentrated in Hokkaidō, are no longer family farms but large-scale industrial operations where dairy cows rarely roam in pastures and instead spend their lives confined in CAFOs.
“Most contemporary dairy farms in Japan-concentrated in Hokkaid ō-are no longer family farms but have become large-scale industrial operations in which dairy cows rarely roam in pastures, and instead spend their lives confined in CAFOs”
From Partaking of Life: Buddhism, Meat-Eating, and Sacrificial Discourses of Gratitude in Contemporary Japan (2019) · cites this paper as Hansen 2014
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- Authors
- Hansen, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Hansen, Paul
- ORCID
- Hansen, Paul
- Venue
- Asian Anthropology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-01-02
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 52-71
- ISSN
- 1683-478X (ISSN-L)
- 2168-4227
- OpenAlex
- W2054633628
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 1.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2015-01-14)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Asian Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Japanese History and Culture
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Rural Development and Agriculture
- Keywords
- dairy industry, milk production costs, agricultural subsidies, crisis discourse, agricultural policy, nationalism, biotechnology, self-sustainability, Hokkaido, Japanese agriculture
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