Yoshihisa Godo received his PhD degree from the University of Kyoto in 1992. His areas of research include development economics and agricultural economics. Professor Godo’s Development Economics (3rd edition), co-authored with Yujiro Hayami and published by the Oxford University Press in 2005, is especially well known. His book written in Japanese, Nihon no Shoku to Nou (Food and Agriculture in Japan), received the 28th Suntory Book Prize in 2006, one of the most prestigious academic book prizes in Japan. He belongs to the International Zheng He Society as an honorary advisor.
Community Order in Japanese Agriculture
Yoshihisa Godo
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Community order and free-market competition
Japanese agriculture is not sustainable without community order. To understand the importance of community order, it is useful to...
Yoshihisa Godo
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
In Japan, the Agricultural Commission is a unique administrative organization system that manages various agricultural land issues at the local level. In spite of its importance, only a few English-language studies have...
Yoshihisa GODO
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Rice, being a staple food of the Japanese, is the most important crop in Japan’s agricultural sector. This paper describes the history of Japanese rice policy after the Pacific War up to the present times (note 1).
From the...
Yoshihisa GODO
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Japan is a mountainous country, with only 33% of its total land acreage as flat area. Japan’s flat land area is much smaller than that of other, major developed countries such as the United States with 70% of its total...
Yoshihisa GODO
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
1. Definition of “agricultural labor force”
In Japan, agricultural laborers are classified in one of the following two ways: “population mainly engaged in farming” and “core persons mainly engaged in farming.”...
Yoshihisa Godo
Yoshihisa Godo received his PhD degree from the University of Kyoto in 1992. His areas of research include development economics and agricultural economics. Professor Godo’s Development Economics (3rd edition), co-authored with Yujiro Hayami and published by the Oxford University Press in 2005, is especially well known. His book written in Japanese, Nihon no Shoku to Nou (Food and Agriculture in Japan), received the 28th Suntory Book Prize in 2006, one of the most prestigious academic book prizes in Japan. He belongs to the International Zheng He Society as an honorary advisor.
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Community Order in Japanese Agriculture
Agricultural Commissions in Japan
The History of Japan’s Post-Pacific-War Rice Policy
Regulation of Farmland Conversion in Japan
The Agricultural Labor Force in Japan
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