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

124 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

affairs. The imposition of war taxes caused a rise in the
expenditures for collection of taxes, the inauguration of
government manufacture and monopoly of tobacco and
monopoly of salt augmented the expenditures for monopolies,
the issue of war bonds swelled to a conspicuous degree the
expenditures for public debt, the expenditures for pensions
rose with the extent of sacrifices of life or health in the war,
while the expenses for other financial matters also showed
considerable increase.
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS EXPENDITURES, I900-19I0 a
Fiscal year Public debt Pensions cia affairs Total
cial affairs
Yen Yen Yen Yen
900-I................ 36,880,593 4,507,246 20,854,618 62,242,458
90-2................ 39,706,746 7,850,912 18,685,332 66,242,991
I902-3................ 59,498, 80 5,297,530 17,443,474 82,239,I84
I903-4............... 41,39I,177 5,694,033 22,660,780 69,745,990
1904-5............... 47,302,587 6,522,888 40,368,437 94,193,912
I905-6............... II5,287,I47 13,452,232 65,820,632 I94,560,0 I
1906-7........... I45,423,768 32,136,352 64,826,239 242,386,359
I907-8............... 82,330,351 29,297,703 78,399,528 290,027,582
908-9................ 201,636,543 27,535,648 81,943,384 311,115,485
I909-10.............. 88,509,809 27,761,564 76,653,29I 292,924,664
a The figures in this table comprise all the expenditures belonging to the general and special
accounts.
As indicated in the above table, the expenditures for financial affairs, which were from 62,000,000 yen to 82,000,000 yen
before the war, made a striking advance during the war,
reaching figures from 242,000,000 yen to 3II,000,000 yen,
which was nearly a fourfold rise. Of these expenses for
financial affairs, those for public debt, which were from 37,ooo,ooo yen to 59,000,000 yen before the war, declined more or
less during the war. The figures rose again after the war,
reaching amounts varying from 145,000,000 yen to 20I,000,000
yen, which are nearly four times the figures in the pre-war
period.
The expenses for pensions ranging from 4,500,000 yen to
7,850,000 yen before the war began to rise during the war,
amounting to sums from 28,000,000 yen to 32,000,000 yen