Agricultural Land Reform in Postwar Japan: Experiences and Issues

50 hectares absentee landlords agrarian reform Agricultural Land Law agricultural land reform agricultural production Asian Model compulsory purchase Cultivated land area daimyo Dore drastic reform Excluding Hokkaido farm households farm production farming landlords Farmland Adjustment Law Hayami hectares in Hokkaido hectares of farmland Hitotsubashi University Hokkaido prefecture income distribution issues Janvry Japanese agriculture Japanese land reform Kaneda Kayo labor Land Committees land holdings land owners land ownership land reform program land rent Land Tax Land tenancy disputes landowners Meiji Meiji period Meiji Restoration Ministry of Agriculture mode of production NKSS NKTG Nochi Kaikaku non-farming landlords Number of farm Ohkawa Owner cum tenant owner farmers percent prefecture prewar Japan prewar period production structure reform in Japan rice price rural society SCAP social Source Table Takamatsu Tenant cum owner tenant farmers tenanted land Tobata Tokugawa period Tokugawa Shogunate Tokyo Toshihiko Kawagoe Total Toyo Keizai village landlords William Easterly yen/tan Yujiro