Abstract
I want to clarify in this article whether the Japanese agriculture can survive under the adjustment policy of economic structure or not. The main conclusions are as follows.
1) Since 1985's G5, prices of farm products have reduced and the import of farm products has rapidly increased.
As the result of these, the agricultural production has ceased to increase. Under the reduction of the local labor market, the farm household members engaged in stable part-time works are decreasing, on the other hand the members in unstable part-time works increasing. The price of farm land is falling in pure rural regions.
2) The adjustment policy of economic structure is exposing all of Japanese industries to international competition under the exchange rate of 120-130 yen par US dollar. Under this adjustment process, Japanese government is going to adopt import liberalization policy for all farm products. As the result agriculture may be forced to disappear from Japan.
3) In order to protect Japanese agriculture, today's Japanese economic structure which too deeply depend on export should be changed to the economy based on the enlargement of domestic market and parchasing power of Japanese nation. And also the protection policy of agriculture must be realized on the existence of trade union “free from capital” and farmers' movement “independent of government.”
