• PROGRAM
  • Agricultural Trade
  • Principles of Environment and Agriculture
  • Global Food Systems
  • Environment Society and Culture
  • Environment Conservation in ASIA
  • Farmers and Consumers in JAPAN
  • Food and Nutrition
  • Ecology and Food Production
  • Food and Environment in Economic Development
  • Field Study Food and Environment
  • Japanese Agricultural Development
  • Comparative Developing Agriculture
  • Comparative Food Processing Technologies
  • Comparative Food Production Technologies
  • Environment and Landscape of JAPAN

Japanese Agricultural Development

This course aims to provide basic knowledge and information on Japanese agricultural development, with special focuses on the evolution of agriculture-related policies and responses of the agricultural sector. This will provide a basic understanding of agricultural and economic development issues in Japan. The Japanese experience is regarded here as a model case for development, and as much as possible, references are made to developing countries in Asia.

	theme	contents	etc.
1	Introduction	Outline of the course, introduction to Japan
2	Agriculture in Feudalistic Japan	Agricultural development prior to 1867	Intensive reading on handouts.
3	Agricultural development in the Meiji Era	Modernization measures and agricultural changes after 1868	Intensive reading on handouts.
4	Land reform	Theory of land reform and a case study of Japanese land reform	Intensive reading on handouts.
5	Agricultural Basic Law	Economic growth and agricultural change in Japan	Intensive reading on handouts.
6	Land Mobilization	Structural reform by farm size expansion	Intensive reading on handouts.
7	New Agricultural Policy	Adjustments to new social and economic conditions in 1990s	Intensive reading on handouts.
8	New Food Law	Diversified rice marketing system	Intensive reading on handouts.
9	Food, Agriculture and Rural Basic Law	Food production and environment conservation in Japan	Intensive reading on handouts.
10	Multiple roles of agriculture	Changing roles of agriculture in the 21st century	Intensive reading on handouts.
11	Infrastructure, technology, institution & management	Overview of agricultural development in Japan	Intensive reading on handouts.
12	Reserved
13	Reserved
14	Reserved
15	Examination

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