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• Japan, Postwar Period
• Japanese Economic History
• Allied Occupation of Japan

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Japan: Land and Men: An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program, 1945-51

by Laurence I. Hewes Jr.. 154 pgs.

Contributors:

   Laurence I. Hewes Jr

Publisher:

   Iowa State College Press

Place of Publication:

  Ames, IA  

Publication Year:

  1955

Subjects:

Land Tenure--Japan, Peasantry--Japan

	CONTENTS
1.	THE SETTING	1
	Origins of Japanese Farming System
	Population and Land Use
2.	THE JAPANESE RURAL VILLAGE	8
	Social Structure of the Village
	The Village as a Social and Economic Unit
	The "Bright Village"
	3.THE HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE PEASANTRY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE	20
	Centralized Imperial Control
	The Decentralized Feudal State
	Repression Under Tokugawa Rule
	Breakdown of Tokugawa Control
	The Peasantry and Imperial Expansionism
4.	THE PEASANTRY AND THE MODERN ERA	30
	Tenancy, a Characteristic of Japanese Agriculture
	Aspects of Farmer Resistance
	Militarism and the Farmer
	The Farmer in World War II
5.	WAR'S END	40
	War on the Home Islands
	Capitulation
	Meeting the Food-Shortage Crisis
6.	POST SURRENDER JAPAN AND THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM	46
	First Contacts With Americans
	Occupation Policy and the Tenancy Problem
	Japanese Resistance to Allied Policy
	The Land Reform Directive
7.	LAND REFORM BECOMES LAW	55
	Weakness in Japanese Legislative System
	Basic Problems of Land Reform
	Beginnings of Allied-Japanese Cooperation
8.	THE MEN WHO PLANNED THE LAND REFORM PROGRAM	65
	The American Personnel
	The Japanese Personnel
9.	DEVELOPMENT OF A GRASS ROOTS REFORM ORGANIZATION	74
	Training the Prefectural Administrators
	Formation of Village Land Commissions
	Election of Commissioners
	The Central Agricultural Land Commission
10.	DESIGN OF THE PROGRAM	85
	The Social and Political Challenge
	The Economic Challenge
	Legal Framework of the Reform
	Time Schedule of the Reform
11.	PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS	97
	Landlord Opposition
	Russian Obstructionist Tactics
	Judicial Hindrances
	Further Attempts by Landlords To Block Reform
12.	LAND REFORM AND THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT	112
	Change in Land Transfer Policy
	Problem of Tax Lands
	Problem of Former Military Land
	The "Pasture Land" Dispute
	Further Governmental Problems
13.	SUCCESSES AND FAILURES	127
	Settling Land Payments
	Registering Transferred Land
	Failure in Compensating for Transferred Land
	Other Shortcomings of the Reform
14.	SAYONARA	141
	Transition to Owner Operation
	What of Future Needs?

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