2022 Volume 85 Issue 5 Pages 555-560
In order to plan policies and measures to maintain urban farmland, it is important to understand the actual conditions of farmland conversion. In particular, the postwar agrarian reform, which allowed many tenant farmers to own farmland, is thought to have had a significant impact on the subsequent conversion of farmland. Therefore, the purpose of this study was set to clarify the conversion of agricultural land ownership after the World War II, focusing on whether the land was owned by former landowners or by former tenant farmers. In this study, using the register and official maps, the change in agricultural land ownership in one district of Edogawa Ward, Tokyo was investigated. As a result, it was found that the currently maintained farmland was the land owned by former landowners after WWII. The former landowners tended to sell or convert some of the farmland to residential land while maintaining the main farmland. On the other hand, former tenant farmers sold their land at an early stage or gave it away upon inheritance. And most of the originally owned farmland was converted to residential land and now much of it is owned by new residents.
