Japans Agro-Food Sector The Politics and Economics of Excess Protection [Paperback]

This book describes the profound structural change in Japan's agriculture from its politically marginalized, economically fragmented, traditional labour-intensive postwar mode of production to its current dual modern shape of a highly capitalized, politically organized and protected sector.Introduction - analysing Japan's agro-food sector; agricultural development until land reform of 1946; social and economic change in Japan's postwar agriculture; agricultural market and product policies; international implications; the future of Japan's agro food sector.