2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Positive and synthetic research on the rice market reorganization in 1870's-1910's
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10630080
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Toyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
OMAMEUDA Minoru Toyo University, Faculty of Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20175251)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | Rice improvement / Rice market / Transport / Rice exchange |
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| Research Abstract |
The theme of this research is the reorganization of the rice market in Japan in the modern ages before World War I.It is approached from the following four points of view. They are (a) Rice improvement of the place of production, (b) The maintenance of the transport condition, (c) Change in the market structure of the big city, (d) The grasping that nationwide rice circulation. Materials for the main place of production and the market were investigated, and it got the following result corresponding to (a)-(d) as a result of analyzing them. (a) Rice improvement by the trade association and the administrative organ began in some places of production, and competition between the places of production began in 1890 fee. The purpose of rice improvement of this time was the standardization of the goods. (b) The degree of the development of rice improvement had intimate relations with the transport condition. (c) 2 big dealings market of Tokyo Fukagawa, Osaka Dojima increased dealings with the remote place of production smoothly. The merchants of these markets suggested rice improvement in the place of production. Furthermore, demand for low quality rice was born newly, and increased in Hokkaido and the big city. (d) Rice improvement was developed based on the formation of the transport condition, and it promoted merchandising of the rice. And the standardization of the low quality rice escalated demand for low quality rice. Through the above work, the process that a rice market was reorganized in the time concerned was studied positively and synthetically.
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Research Products
(6 results)
