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Agricultural Development and Employment Expansion: A Case Study of Japan

In: Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries

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  • Takeo Misawa

    (Tokyo University of Education)

Abstract

The changes in agricultural population in Japan from the earlier Meiji era to the end fo the inter-war period have been studied intensively by Japanese economists.1 We can now conclude that there was no dramatic and discontinuous change in the trend of the number of persons gainfully engaged in agriculture in Japan over as long a period as nearly seventy years — that is, from about 1870 to 1940. It is a surprising fact that the agricultural population in Japan remained at about 14 million for the whole seventy years down to the outbreak of the Second World War, in spite of the fact that there were considerable changes in the structure of agricultural enterprises, progress in farming technologies, and increasing demands for labour from non-agricultural sectors of the economy. It is also to be noted that the number of farm households remained nearly unchanged at about 5–5 million all the time through the same period of years (see Fig. 12.1).

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  • Takeo Misawa, 1974. "Agricultural Development and Employment Expansion: A Case Study of Japan," International Economic Association Series, in: Nurul Islam (ed.), Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries, chapter 12, pages 314-339, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-63663-1_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63663-1_12
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