日本の大陸政策と防穀令問題 : 満洲米の輸出問題を中心として
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During the Meiji and Taisho Periods, ensuring stable supplies of foreign rice, which was an indispensable issue in Japan's food security policy, led to increased interest in the Chinese mainland. At the same time, however, China had implemented a grain protection act which had, in principle, banned all exports of rice. This article discusses relations between Japan and China focusing on the issue of food, in order to clarify the process of negotiations over lifting bans on the export of Manchurian-grown rice. In Japan, China's rice protection act was viewed from three aspects: domestic policy issues, rice protectionism as a foreign affairs issue, and the present state of agriculture in Manchuria. It was in 1918, in the face of severe riots stemming from rice scarcity, that a reformulation of Japan's food security policy became necessary. At the same time, rapid increases in Manchurian rice production were being viewed as Japan's answer to its food supply problems. On the other hand, the deliberations by the government's Council of Advisers were marked by pessimism about the country's dependency on foreign rice. Therefore, in terms of domestic policy, there was little hope that the Chinese grain protectionism issue could be solved, while foreign policy continued to emphasize the opening of the Chinese market. This conflict between domestic and foreign policy became evident during the preparatory stages of the Special Conference on Customs arid Tarriffs to be held in Beijing during 1925-26; and in an attempt to resolve the conflict, the Foreign Ministry removed its demand that China's Grain Protection Act be overturned and thus eliminated grain protectionism as a diplomatic problem. Meanwhile, rapid increases in Manchurian rice production, which had elicited little interest in Japan, began to be smuggled into colonial Korea, and further expansion of this activity ended up giving rise to an export system based on foreign trade not subject to Chinese sanctions. Consequently, the grain protectionism issue became "solved" on all three domestic, foreign and Manchurian fronts.
- 公益財団法人史学会の論文
- 2010-09-20