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

EFFECTS ON PUBLIC FINANCE

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MILITARY AND NAVAL EXPENDITURES, I900-I9IO a
Fiscal Military Naval Senju Naval
Woolen coaling Total
year arsenals arsenals Mills stations
Yen Yen Yen Yen Yen
1900-I.... I,986,893 4,164,075 1,432,361.... 17,583,329
I90I-2.... I 1,997,,76 5,055,883 1,970,356.... I9,023,955
1902-3.... 8,299,190 6,195,395 1,386,405.... I5,880,990
1903-4... O0,899,IO9 7,014,531 1,658,280.... I9,571,920
I904-5.... 33,625,844 13,157,846 4,502,916.... 51,286,606
I905-6.... 64,281,193 22,561,3IO 3,595,082.... 90,437,585
I906-7... 26,358,087 19,403,759 3,66I,OI5.... 49,421,861
I907-8.... 22,680,399 I8,I50,573 3,415,713 787,606 45,034,291
1908-9.... 20,453,155 15,290,941 2,687,144 1,241,672 39,672,912
I909-10.. I7,983,094 I5,882,343 2,248,182 1,423,745 37,537,364
a The expenditures for military arsenals represent the total of the two special accounts for arsenals
at Tokyo and Osaka. The expenditures for naval arsenals before I904-5 show the total of two
special accounts, i.e., the fund for naval shipbuilding and materials and the fund for naval ordnance
and materials; while the figures for I905-6 and subsequent years represent the special account for
naval arsenals, which was the aggregate of the two funds above mentioned.
yen before the war, swelled to the figures from 13,150,000 yen
to 22,560,000 yen during the war. The expenditures for the
Senju Woolen Mills, which were from 1,380,000 yen to I,970,000 yen, rose to amounts between 3,590,000 yen and
4,500,000 yen. Thus, the total expenditures for the government undertakings for arms and war supplies increased to sums
varying from 51,280,000 yen to 90,430,000 yen during the war,
against the total appropriations before the war, which ranged
from 15,880,000 yen to 19,570,000 yen. The amount of each
item gradually decreased after the war, but still the figure
remained far above the one before the war, showing an altogether new aspect as compared with the pre-war time.
The Government Iron Foundry during the war was extended
and worked to the fullest capacity, from the necessity of
satisfying a suddenly increased demand for war materials.
This greatly swelled its expenditures both in ordinary and
extraordinary items. The government had inaugurated the
iron foundry business in the fiscal year I899-I900, and the
program for the first period of the work was nearing completion when the war broke out, compelling the government to
extend the business by means of the disbursement of extraor