ID | 84008 |
Title Transcription | ウノ コウゾウ ノ ニホン ノウギョウロン
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Title Alternative | THE STUDY OF JAPANESE AGRICULTURE BY KOUZO UNO
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Author |
Tama, Shinnosuke
Laboratory of Agricultural Marketing
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Content Type |
Departmental Bulletin Paper
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Description | This paper reviews the study of Japanese agriculture by Kouzo Uno,who was a
prominent economist in postwar Japan. The main aim of this review is to put on his theoretical examinations toward peasant behavior in prewar Japan and his framework for analyzing Japanese agriculture from a global point of view. One of the unique elements of his analysis of Japanese agriculture was that he attributed the reason of high rents in tenant-farming prewar Japan not to the feudal system but to the competition among owner-tenant-farmers. He argued that owner-farmers with excess family labor would compete with each other to take on tenant land in order to get additional income. They were able to endure the high rents of tenant land because of the income gained from their own land. This behavior of owner-tenant-farmers was interpreted as originated from peasant's aspirations,not to accumulate capital by employing labor, but to expand their own land as a family property through family labor. On the other hand,Uno also argued that capitalism which emerged in the 18th century with a base in the manufacturing sector,created a world economic system which seperated industrial countries and colonized agricultural countries,as agriculture was not an appropriate sector for capitalist management. After the first World War,however,this relationship was broken down partly because of the exess agricultural production in agricultural countries,and partly because of the industrial countries' policy in pursuit of the agricultural food self-sufficiency. This structural problem in the global trade of agricultural products had strongly influenced the agricultural conditions and policy in each of the industrial countries. These two aspects of the agricultural economy identified by Kouzo Uno are still useful in examining,from a theoretical viewpoint,the current situation of Japanese agriculture. |
Journal Title |
弘前大学農学部学術報告
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ISSN | 0073229X
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NCID | AN00211885
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Publisher | 弘前大学農学部
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Volume | 58
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Start Page | 74
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End Page | 96
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Sort Key | 74
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Published Date | 1995-03
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jpn
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departments |
Integrated Arts and Sciences
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