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

本研究的目的是对日本战时和战后维新时期的土地政策进行实证分析，厘清其影响。本研究项目所采取的土地政策有：“控制租金执行法”、“临时执行农田管理执行法”、“临时执行农地价格执行法”和“执行农作物管理执行法”。在这个研究项目中，我努力收集了与土地政策有关的各种文件，如农业部的主要文件、地方性官方公报等。通过对这些文献的分析，取得了丰硕的成果。在本研究项目的成果中，《管控租金执行法》的成果如下。我指出了这一行为的三个要点。第一个是，根据该法第四条的执行，租户条件被修订的地区占全国平均租户土地的20%，尽管各县之间的结果有所不同。二是集体房客关系是根据该法第四条形成的。因此，传统的房客关系发生了很大的变化。第三，由于政府未能提供明确的政策，将减租部分转化为粮食产量大幅增加的有利条件，这一举措并不一定对粮食增产有效。我就这一研究项目的成果向裁判系统的科学期刊投稿了四篇文章。

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.