Peasant Farming System in Japan

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  • 零細農耕と農地制度
  • レイサイ ノウコウ ト ノウチ セイド

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The Japanese Land Reform was completed by 1950, and its objectives, those of transferring land owner-ship rights to tenants and lowering rents, were successfully attained. But, Peasant Farming System, specially constructed in Japanese Capitalism since Meiji-Era, could not find the way to make reformation itself. The Japanese Peasant Farming System has been maintained now, and rapid growth of the industrial sectors has widened the gap between the productivity of agriculture and other industries and the gap in incomes between those employed in agriculture and those employed in other industries. Thus, Japanese Agriculture is now, as it were, collapsing, as its each production units are too small and too poor. The serious defect of peasant farming system lies in its high rent which is created by over-head-cost on its simply consolidated agricultural land pieces. If we cannot neglect the rent or ownership itself, we have to establish the new farm which will be so large and so effective as to able to bear high rent by itself.

Journal

  • The Journal of Agrarian History

    The Journal of Agrarian History 11 (1), 24-36, 1968

    The Agrarian History Society (Renamed as The Political Economy and Economic History Society)

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