Japanese Government established the fundamental policy about Peasant Emigration for Manchuria in 1936, but as the war was prolonged, the emigration was reduced suddenly after it had reached the peak in 1940.
Received opinion is that the collapse in the Policy of Peasant Emigration had caused this situation. I agree with the opinion about only the number of the peasants. The peasant emigration was already not the policy that saved their poverty.
But otherwise the villages that had sent the peasant emigration by its policy increased in this period. In this background, there was a big change of the government policy about the peasants. Japanese Government converted the aim of village administration from the peasant salvation to the posting the peasants at every places in Asia. On this reason Japanese Government changed the village administration to the war cooperation system.That became to the village situation under the wartime.
