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Guardian of Kaga's green forests

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There was a practice called iriai that dates back to the thirteenth century. This saw villagers exerting communal control over a forest. Using this approach, as documented in Conrad Totman's 1998 book The Green Archipelago, the villagers would determine who within the village and from outside had what usage rights to which areas and under what conditions. Read more about Kaga forests http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-roots-of-cooperative-capitalism-run-deep-in-japan/

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