The Origin Of Japans Protectionist Agricultural Policy Agricultural Administration In Modern Japan Hironori Sasada by Hironori Sasada 9781032539423, 1032539429 instant download after payment.

This book explores the origins of Japan’s protectionist agricultural policies through an in-depth historical analysis of Japanese agricultural policies between the Meiji period and the end of WWII. It offers a constructivist account for the rise of protectionism, examining the policies of prewar agricultural bureaucrats who played critical roles in the policymaking process. It argues that protectionist agricultural policy in Japan was not originally generated by the “iron triangle” (a political alliance consisted of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Agricultural Ministry, and farmers’ organizations) but by a prewar agricultural bureaucrats’ policy idea called shōnō ron (thoughts on small-scale farming). Ultimately the book reveals how, contrary to suggestions of previous scholarship, the protective measures based on shōnō ron forged the necessary conditions for the emergence of “iron triangle” after the end of WWII, which in turn institutionalized Japan’s subsequent protectionist agr