Abstract
In 1870 Japan, as a backward nation, realized the necessity of modern industialization, and it had been promoted in a comparatively short time, from that time to the Pacific War, chiefly through the emigration of agricultural population. But in comparison with the funds for machinery imported late, proportion of the funds necessaly for labor employment was lower, and besides Japan had no world-wide overseas market. Therefore the accumulation of fund had been rather slow and dull. The progress of industrialization in Japan, therefore, was not so influential as to destroy the household industry and to give some revolution to the family-size agricultural system. Because of the overpopulation, which was naturally resulted from this phenomenon, in family economics of a small scale in Japanese agricultur, industrialization had been carried on by drawing out industrial labor of low wages easily at any time, and also by sending back the unemployed population to it. As a result of the defeat in the Pacific War, agricultural communities of Japan had to receive the repatriated population and are now being toubled with unprecedented overpopulation. Owing to the fact that the industrialization in Japan is making slow progress, emigration from agriculture to industry is nowadays under very inactive condition.
