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

122 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

nary expenditures and from 25,000,000 yen to 80,000,000 yen
for extraordinary expenditures. It will be readily understood
from these figures how great was the effect of the war on the
expenditures for the Army and the Navy. After the war,
moreover, the extension of our armament necessitated by the
expansion of our national power in Korea and Manchuria,
as well as the repletion of our Army and Navy armaments
weakened by the war, changed the whole aspect of our military expenditures, which became double the amount before
the war. The following table shows in detail the changes in
military and naval expenditures above outlined.
MILITARY AND NAVAL EXPENDITURES, I900-I9IO
Regular expenditures
- ---------------- ------ W ar Grand
Fiscal Ordinary Extraor- Total expenses total
year dinary
Yen Yen Yen Yen Yen
I900-I... 53,034,892 80,078,204 I33,II3,096.... 133,II3,096
I90I-2... 56,918,864 45,442,244 I02,36I,108.... I02,36I,I08
I902-3... 60,233,014 25,535,233 85,768,247.... 85,768,247
I903-4... 60,885,625 22,095,804 82,981,429 I60,088,516 243,069,945
I904-5.-. I7,I99,I88 15,387,539 32,586,727 747,735,207 780,321,934
I905-6... 20,867,933 I3,604,I31 34,472,064 402,254,453 436,726,517
906 —7... 66,364,143 I4,954,332 881,318,475 247,600,802 328,919,277
I907-8... 82,163,613 I05,274,907 I87,438,520 I2,098,542 I99,537,062
I908-9... I03,070,999 111,596,573 214,667,572.... 214,667,572
I909-I0.. I04,744,936 72,467,456 I77,212,392.... I77,212,392

Again, the state had to support or reward those who
sacrificed themselves or rendered services in the war. This
necessity caused a very sharp advance in the expenses for
pensions and annuities after the outbreak of the war, as
shown in the following statistics.
As is indicated in the following table, the pensions accompanying decorations rose to 13,000,000 yen after the war, or
thirteen times the amount before the war, while the pensions
for military and naval men advanced to I6,ooo,ooo yen, or
nearly eight times the sum before the war. By far the greater
part of the increase was entirely due to the war. The pensions