Studies on the Land Policy in War-time Japan, 1941-1945

本研究旨在实证分析日本土地政策，厘清日本在战时与战后改革时期土地政策的效果。本研究项目采用的土地政策为“地租管制执行法”、“农地管理临时执行法”、“农地价格管制临时执行法”、“农地管理临时执行法”、“农地管理执行法”。在这个研究项目中，我努力收集了与土地政策相关的各种文件，如农业部的主要文件，地方官方公报等。通过对这些文献的分析，获得了丰富的效果。在本研究项目的结果中，“管制租金的执行行为”的结果如下。我指出了这一法案的三点。首先，通过执行该法案第4条，修改租地条件的地区占全国平均租地面积的20%，尽管各县之间的结果有所不同。二是集体租主关系是由本法第四条形成的。因此，传统的房东-房客关系发生了很大的变化。第三，由于政府未能提供一个明确的政策，将租金减少的部分转化为粮食产量急剧增加的优势，这一行为并不一定对粮食产量的增加起作用。本研究成果已在裁判系统科学期刊上发表了四篇论文。

The purpose of this research project is to analyze the land policies empirically and to clarify the effects of the land policies in war-time and postwar reform period in Japan. The land policies which are taken up by this research project are "Kosakuryou-Tousei-Rei" (execution act of controlling of rents), "Rinji-Nouchi-Tou-Kanri-Rei" (temporary execution act of management of farmland), "Rinji-Nouchi-Kakaku-Tousei-Rei" (temporary execution act of controlling of farmland price) and "Nouchi-Sakutuke-Tousei" (execution of management of crop). In this research project, I have made efforts to collect the varying documents related with the land policies such as the primary documents of the Ministry of Agriculture, the prefectural official gazettes and so on. By analyzing these documents, the plentiful effects are obtained.Among the results of this research project, the results of "Kosakuryou-Tousei-Rei" (execution act of controlling of rents) are as follows. I point out three points of this act. First one is that the region where the tenant conditions had been revised was 20% of the tenant land on the national average by execution of article four of this act, though there were different results between prefectures. The second is that collective landlord-tenant relations were formed with article four of this act. Thus the conventional landlord-tenant relations were widely changed. The third is because the government was not able to provide a clear policy of turning the reduced part of rents to advantage for a sharp increase in food production, this act did not necessarily become effective to the food production increase.I have contributed four articles on the results of this research project to the scientific journals of referee system.