MODERNIZATION OF JAPANESE ECONOMY: Its Rural Origin

I.该项目包括以下两个部分：（1）原始资料的收集，即关于朝鲜泽（世纪后期的村级经济发展项目）、kosuwari（村级所得税）和keizai-kosei-undo（20世纪30年代的经济自我复兴项目）的文件，并研究它们的准确性。B）基本上从城乡关系的角度分析战前日本的经济发展。研究结果：（1）收集了大量的语料，并对其准确性、法律的背景和社会学背景进行了研究。Satow的论文主要是关于kosu-wari的。B）我们用朝鲜泽和小须瓦里分析了经济发展的某些方面。齐藤把明治时代的婴儿死亡率作为经济发展的基本条件进行了研究。Odaka和Kiyokawa直接关注经济活动，即农村地区的储蓄网（Odaka）和生丝行业的技术发展（Kiyokawa）。Minami分析了一些农村和城市地区的收入分配，并得出结论，大致来说，库兹涅茨的倒U型在战前的日本是可以采用的。

I. The project consisted of following two parts: a) collection of source materials, namely documents on choson-ze (village-level economic developing project in the late 19th century), kosu-wari(village-level income tax) and keizai-kosei-undo(economic self revival project in the 1930's), as well as research on accuracy of them. b) analysing the economic development of pre-war Japan basically from the viewpoint of interrelationship between rural and urban areas.II. The results a) We managed to collect the most of the mateirals, and researched on their accuracy, their legal and sociological background. Satow's paper is focused on this topic mainly about kosu-wari. b) With choson-ze and kosu-wari we analysed some aspects of economic development. Saito researched on infant mortality in Meiji era as a basic condition of economic development. Odaka and Kiyokawa focused directly on economic activities, i.e. saving rete in rural areas (Odaka) and technologycal development in the raw-silk industry (Kiyokawa). Minami analysed the distribution of income in some rural and urban areas and concluded that the Kuznets' reverse U is, roughly saying, adoptable in pre-war Japan.