Abstract
The Japanese are rice-eaters. In the face of the stern law of diminishing returns, patient tillers of the soil, who, in all, represent 5,500,000 families, or fifty-two per cent of the total number of families in Japan, are producing a normal yield (average of five consecutive years up to 1923) of 59,074,000 koku l from slightly more than 3,000,000 cho 2 of paddy fields. Since per capita consumption of rice ranges around 1.1 and 1.2 koku every year, the domestic yield falls short of the demand, and, moreover, the brewers crash yearly some 3,700,000 koku of the best grade of rice into the national beverage of sake. So importation of the article from abroad is necessitated, and the general tendency is for an increased amount every year. Apart from her colonies, i.e. Taiwan and Chosen, Siam, French IndoChina, British India and China supplied Japan with 61,300,000 yen worth of rice to fill the deficiency in 1922, although to be exact, the amount is to be subtracted by 1,700,000 yen exported to various foreign countries chiefly for the use of Japanese residents abroad.
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