The Transformation of Family Farm and Livingstyle under Slow-growth Economy and Internationalization

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  • Toshima Shinichi
    Laboratory of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

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  • 低成長,経済の国際化過程での家族経営と生活様式の変容
  • テイ セイチョウ ケイザイ ノ コクサイカ カテイ デ ノ カゾク ケイエイ

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Abstract

After the first oil shock, the days of hight growth economic expansion have been never come back again in Japan. But under the slow growth, Japanese economic structure has extremely changed. 1. To recover the competitivess, Japanese enterprises tried to improve their energy conservative technology hardly. So key industries such as heavy and chemical industry have changed to light and hight-tech ones. 2. After the restruction, manufactured export has increased year by year, and trade surplus also increased with hight speed. So the value of Yen currency has gone up and in opposite the price of import goods have gone down. In that circumstance international comparative wage (labor cost) has also gone up. Many Japanese enterprises have planned to move or build their factories in Asian countries in order to keep competitivess. 3. Thus, Japanese agriculture was faced with many difficulties, not only by domestic factors but international ones. Japanese agriculture could not help taking a reproduction on a diminishing scale. 4. In Progress of hight-tech industries, working forms and life styles have been extremely changing. Especally, woman's labor surroundings have been changing. Because heavy and skilled labors have been simplified and eased by micro electric revolution. So, job opportunity for woman has been increasing in recent years. 5. Life style is also changed by micro electric revolution. We have been thinking that nuclear family is the general and permanent system in the capitalism. In parallel with the changing of working forms and life styles, the difference of works between the man and woman has become small. So, we must change our thinking about the role of nuclear family system.

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