Part One: Japanese agriculture and Japanese villages
I. Agriculture and the Villages Before World War II
II. The Present State of Agriculture and the Villages
Part Two: Kinship and family life
III. The Structure of the Rural Family
IV. The IE System and Family Life
V. The Dozokudan and the Kinship Relations
Part Three: The structure of hamlet society
VI. The Hamlet as an Agricultural Settlement
VII: The Hamlet and Social Groups
VIII. The Structure and Functioning of Hamlet Self-Government
IX. The Power Structure of the Hamlet
Part Four: The political structure of Japanese villages
X. The Development of Local Government in the Villages
XI. The Authority Structure of the Villages
XII. National Politics and the Villages
Part Five: Village culture and the farmer's mentality
XIII. Village Life and Culture
XIV. Changing and Unchanging Aspects of the Farmer's Mentality