The Origin of Japan’s Protectionist Agricultural Policy: Agricultural Administration in Modern Japan

This book explores the origins of Japan’s protectionist agricultural policies through an in-depth historical analysis of Japanese agricultural policies between the Meiji period and the end of WWII.

Hironori Sasada is Professor of Japanese studies at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. His areas of specialty include political economy of Japan and East Asia, foreign policy, and party politics.