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...
Yutsai Huang
Director, Food and Fertilizer Technology Center
For several decades now, Japan government’s mandatory quota-based program called “gentan” (減反)or paddy reduction, has been designed to keep rice prices artificially high. Critics say the program has long...
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
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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godo@eco.meijigakuin.ac.jpLatest Submission from Japan
Community Order in Japanese Agriculture
社區規範對日本農業的影響
Japan’s Reformed Gentan Rice Program Viewed as too late by Farmers
日本稻米政策改革 在農民看來為時已晚
Agricultural Commissions in Japan
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