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(★)(Publication of this volume was assisted by the Japan Foundation.)(It was over a decade and half ago that ´A Century of Agricultural Growth in Japan´ by Yujiro Hayami in association with Masakatsu Akino, Masahiko Shintani, and Saburo Yamada was published jointly by the University of Tokyo Press and the University of Minnesota Press. This book was well received by an international readership and became a standard text on the history of agricultural development in Japan since the Meiji Restoration. It covered the period from 1880 to 1970, a decade less than a full century, with the major analysis ending in the early years of rapid economic growth after the recovery from the devastation of World War II.／ In the succeeding two decades, agriculture has had to face very serious adjustment problems as the Japanese economy became one of the supreme industrial powers, and there has been a demand for a new edition updating both the data and the analysis of the earlier edition so that our current problems can be assessed in terms of past history. Furthermore, with the completion in 1988 of the monumental fourteen volumes of the ´Estimates of Long-Term Economic Statistics of Japan since 1869´, edited by Kazushi Ohkawa, Miyohei Shinohara, and Mataji Umemura, major revisions of our historical data series, especially that on the labor force, became indispensable.／ Meanwhile, we have investigated several areas not covered in the previous publication, and our revision and updating of the previous analyses was an ongoing process. The results of these efforts are brought together in this volume. Of the eight chapters, four (Chapters 5 through 8) consist of new studies not reported in the previous book, and two (Chapters 1 and 2) represent complete revisions of or major additions to the material published in the previous volume. Thus, we consider it appropriate that this volume is being published as a new book rather than a revised edition of the previous publication.／ In this book we attempt to shed light on the current situation and current problems in the light of past history. However, the major theme of this book is the long-term agricultural development process over one hundred years. Readers who want to study current agricultural problems in Japan in greater detail may wish to consult our three recent publications : Kym Anderson, Yujiro Hayami, et al., ´The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection (Allen and Unwin, 1986)´ ; Yujiro Hayami, ´Japanese Agriculture under Siege (Macmillan and St. Martin´s Press, 1988)´ ; and Cornelis L.J. van der Meer and Saburo Yamada, ´Japanese Agriculture : A Comparative Economic Analysis (London : Routledge, 1990)´. These three studies focus on the growth of agricultural protection in the course of rapid economic growth, including its causes and consequences. [from ´PREFACE´, Yujiro Hayami, Saburo Yamada, May 1991] ▼CONTENTS／ ●PART I : OVERVIEW／ ◎Chapter 1.Quantitative Aspects of Agricultural Development／ ◎Chapter 2.Institutional Aspects of Agricultural Development／ ●PART II : HISTORICAL GROWTH ELEMENTS／ ◎Chapter 3.Development and Diffusion of Improved Rice Varieties／ ◎Chapter 4.The Role of Land Infrastructure in Agricultural Development／ ◎Chapter 5.The Contribution of Fertilizer to Agricultural Productivity Growth／ ◎Chapter 6.The Tradeoff between Food and Industrial Crops : Summer-Fall Rearing of Cocoons／ ●PART III : ADJUSTMENT TO RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH／ ◎Chapter 7.Farm Mechanization, Scale Economies, and Structural Change／ ◎Chapter 8.Causes of Growth in Agricultural Protection／ ◎Appendix A : Historical Data for Japan／ ◎Appendix B : International Comparative Data for the Regression Analysis of Agricultural Protection／) |
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