Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese war / by Gotaro Ogawa.

120 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

ARMY EXPENDITURES, 1900-1910 a
Regular Army expenditures
War Grand
Fisl yr O y Extraor- Texpenses total
Fiscal year Ordinary dinary Total
dinary
Yen Yen Yen Yen Yen
I900-I..... 36,123,892 38,714,309 74,838,201.... 74,838,201
I901-2.... 37,433,911 20,947,869 58,381,780.... 58,381,780
I902-3..... 39,169,669 I0,272,390 49,442,059.... 49,442,059
1903-4..... 39,355,388 7,529,174 46,884,562 II2,I18,83I 159,003,393
I904-5..... 9,066,468 3,022,042 12,088,510 665,747,050 677,835,560
I905-6..... 8,535,794 2,573,377 11,109,I7I 328,704,141 339,813,312
I906-7..... 38,372,794 2,369,821 40,742,614 204,468,626 245,211,240
I907-8..... 50,870,677 67,849,o64 II8,719,74I 8,545,001 127,264,742
I908-9..... 68,723,299 74,365,825 143,089,124.... I43,089,124
1909-10.... 69,60I,504 36,564,497 I06,I66,00o.... io6,I66,ooi
a The regular expenditures for the Army in the above table represent the total of those expenditures of the general accounts which came under the control of the War Office, with the exception,
however, of the extraordinary-affairs expense connected with the Russo-Japanese War (part of the
war-time administrative expenses), which is left out, while the expenses for the Horse Administration Bureau prior to I908-9 are included as transferred from under the Finance Department. The
fiscal years for the war-time military expenditures terminated with 1906-7, i.e., the end of March,
I907, but the payment was not concluded until the end of June. So in the above table the expenditures for the twelve months ending in June each year are taken as the expenditures for one fiscal
year. The grand total represents the aggregate of expenditures for the Army.
totaling from 49,000,000 yen to 74,000,000 yen. This was
the normal level of expenditures for the Army, but a sudden
change occurred in the war finance period. The ordinary
expenses now fell to about 9,000,000 yen, and the extraordinary expenses to about 3,000,000 yen, totaling 12,000,000
yen, approximately, while the war expenditures for the Army
ranged from 112,000,000 yen to 665,000,000 yen, bringing up
the grand total to large sums varying from I59,000,000 yen
to 677,000,000 yen.
Next, the war expenditures for the Navy were 225,000,000
yen in the war-time military expenditures and 25,000,000 yen
in the war-time administrative expenditures, with the aggregate of 250,000,000 yen. The relations of these figures to
the whole expenditures for the Navy are showdn in the following
table.
The table indicates the general trend of the whole naval
expenses. Before the war, the ordinary expenditures were
from I6,000,000 yen to 2I,000,000 yen and the extraor