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RICE - ITS PRODUCTION AND IMPORT
4,000,000 tons of food, for which the Japanese claim they are will-
ing to pay cash. Allied authorities, however, have pointed out that
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
IMPORTED
the Japanese are probably averaging better than the 1500 calories
1929
309
53
per day on which some European countries must exist. Japan will
1933
AVERAGE
have to wait her turn while Allied officials plan to meet the needs
of a hungry world.
1934-
1939
318
80
AVERAGE
RECONVERSION OF INDUSTRY
Hard though the lot of Japan's farmers may be, it is the people
1946
266
crowded into industrial areas who face the worst immediate prob-
(ESTIMATE)
lems. Seven million men are being demobilized and agriculture
FIGURES IN MILLION BUSHELS
can absorb only a part of them. The Japanese middle class is
GRAPHIC ASSOCIATES
small; competition for white-collar jobs and in the professions
was bitterly keen even before the war. Emigration or employ-
the highest in the Orient. A sharp drop in any nation's consump-
ment in foreign trade are, for the time being, out of the question.
tion means suffering, and suffering means social unrest.
Practically all the nonagricultural population must be employed
The present government under Premier Shidehara has been
in industry or receive relief if they are to live.
vacillating and ineffectual in dealing with the crisis. A badly
For a time a job shortage is inevitable. On December 1, 1945,
organized distribution and price control system is partly to blame.
there were 3,337,000 unemployed, as compared with 744,000 on
Official reports on available supplies have been conflicting and
May I, 1945. The Japanese government is opposed to any form of
unsatisfactory. The government complains that the peasants are
dole for the unemployed and prefers a program of public works.
hoarding their crops; but the farmers of the Kyoto district reply
However, in compliance with General MacArthur's directive of
that they cannot deliver more foodstuffs because the warehouses
December 13, to care for the needy, the Welfare Minister has out-
are already full of thousands of bushels of rice which the govern-
lined a 13,300,000 relief program for the unemployed war suf-
ment has failed to distribute. General MacArthur has warned the
ferers and repatriates.
Japanese that if they cannot devise a workable system for handling
But such measures are subsidiary to the main goal-revived
food the occupation forces will do it for them. Allied pressure has
production of peacetime goods. The lack of domestic markets has
also been applied to increase production in the important fisheries
in the past been one of Japan's chief drives `toward economic im-
industry, which has been somewhat apathetic in making the best
perialism. A remedy for this situation may lie in encouraging her
of its present fishing grounds, manpower, and equipment.
to develop full production of consumers' goods and to build a
Both the government and crowds of hunger marchers have peti-
home market by distributing a larger proportion of the national
tioned Allied Headquarters to permit the importation of about
income to workers and peasants.
60
61
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