In search of agricultural policy reform in Japan
分析了日本农业的高边境保护政策，指出其对大米和肉类的双重保护效果，并探讨了通过调整资源、改变贸易条件和土地政策来推动改革的可能性。
Japan's agricultural border protection is high for food, but low for feed, thus effectively protecting both rice and meat products. This border protection is complemented by other governmental support in the form of direct subsidies, capital subsidies, price support, together amounting to 37% of agricultural GDP in 1985 and not offset by the taxes paid by farmers or on farm products. Changing this protective structure requires resource adjustment, which can be brought about by changing agricultural terms of trade, concomitant with an increase in average farm size and a decline in part-time farming, through a more liberal land-use policy.