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

130 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

the government was inaugurated in the fiscal year I899-I900.
It was still in the initial stage before the war broke out and
naturally required a considerable amount of extraordinary
expenditures, bringing the total to 3,670,000 yen and 4, I I0,000
yen, respectively, in the fiscal years I902-3 and I903-4. During the war these expenditures rose at a bound to figures
ranging from 6,930,000 yen to 1,260,000 yen, which increased
to a still larger amount after the war, owing to the extension
of the steel business which was required by the expansion of
national economics. In other government industries a large
increase was also noticeable, particularly during the war.
Thus, the total expenditures for government industries, which
varied from 58,130,000 yen to 66,270,000 yen before the war,
suddenly advanced to sums from 88,370,000 yen to I31,320,ooo yen during the war. And with the expansion of post
bellum government industries the expenditures for these
industries showed a striking advance, compared with the time
before the war.
We have made thus far a survey of the general aspects of
total expenditures for government industries. We must now
consider the effects of the war upon the expenses of each of
these industries.
As regards the government undertakings connected with
arms and other war supplies in Japan, the Army had military
arsenals and the Senju Woolen Mills, while the Navy had
naval arsenals and coaling stations. For the same reason
that the expenditures for the Army formed the largest item
in the expenditures for war, the expenses for military arsenals
showed the greatest increase during the war, next in importance being the expenditures for the woolen mills, while the
rise in the expenditures for naval arsenals was comparatively
slight. (See table on next page.)
As indicated in the table, the expenditures for military arsenals before the war were from 8,290,000 yen to I 1,990,000 yen,
which increased during the war to large sums varying from
33,620,000 yen to 64,280,000 yen, while the expenditures for
naval arsenals, which were from 4,I60o,ooo yen to 7,0I0,000