@article{Tama:242330,
      recid = {242330},
      author = {Tama, Shinnosuke},
      title = {Changes in the Number of Farm Households and Its Regional  Character from 1908-1940 in Japan},
      journal = {Journal of Rural Economics},
      address = {2014-06},
      number = {359-2016-18471},
      pages = {11},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {There were regional increases and decreases in the number  of farm households in pre-war Japan. The aim of this paper  is to analyze relevant data of prefectures in the prewar  period to find out the regional character of the changes in  the number of farm households, and to examine its factors  in relation to the Ie system. Our analysis drew six points  of conclusion: (1) The number of farm households increased  in eastern Japan and south Kyusyu, and decreased in western  Japan; (2) Regional increase and decrease in the number of  households correlated with the rise and fall in the number  of tenant farm households; (3) Regional increase and  decrease in the area of arable land also correlated with  changes in the number of farm households; (4) Regional  shifts in rural populations correlated with regional rise  and fall in the number of farm households as well; (5) It  is not a correct perception that impartible inheritance of  land to a single heir dominated in prewar Japan. The  reality was that many farmers divided their Ie property  while they were still alive and gave small parts to  children who did not succeed to their Ie; and (6) The  number of farm households in eastern Japan grew due to the  increase in the rural population and creation of tenants  households that were given small tenant rights by the  father as a social security in exchange for lack of  inheritance of Ie.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/242330},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.242330},
}