1966 Press Photo Professor Teigo Yoshida of Kyushu University in Japan

Professor Teigo Yoshida explains Japan farmers, says they are dependent on one another. - Crowded and bustling big cities the world over have similar skylines and highways. But rural areas differ in their patterns of byways. Dependence, as opposed to American independence, plays a large role in rural Japan, according to one of that nation's leading sociologists and anthropologists. Professor Teigo Yoshida of Kyushu University, specialist in village organization in Japan, cites that his country's entire system of rural organization centers around the planting and harvesting of its chief crop, rice.

Photo is dated 1966.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.