| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In Japan, the consumption of staple food (rice) increased from about 1890. The shortage could not be compensated by the supply from the colony. Therefore the import of rice from Southeast Asia (Burma, French Indochina, and Thailand) became essential. The purpose of this study is to examine the rice import.
Since 1890s, the shortage of rice became constant. The government intervened in the futures market, imported rice and disposed it off. As a result, the rice imports increased sharply. And, before and after the Rice Riot (1918), the supply conditions of foreign rice production areas were unstable by WWI and the poor crops. Therefore, Japanese diplomats, who resided in production areas, and the Japanese Government negotiated to promote the imports. As a result, the imports by trading companies also increased. However, in the Wartime, the rice import conditions were lost. As the shortage was not compensated, the serious food crisis occurred at the end of WWII.
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