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

EFFECTS ON PUBLIC FINANCE

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PEACE PRESERVATION EXPENDITURES, I900-I9IOa
Extraordinary
Grand
Fiscal year Ordinary Grtta
Regular War Total
Yen Yen Yen Yen Yen
I900-I......... 25,485,558 7,546,515.... 7,546,515 33,032,073
1901-2......... 26,906,203 9,452,876.... 9,452,876 36,359,079
1902-3........ 27,769,142 10,962,279.... I0,962,279 38,731,42I
I903-4....... 28,841,350 9,258,007 1,245,343 I0,503,352 39,346,002
1904-5......... 27,474,033 6,127,365 3,608,898 9,736,262 37,210,296
1905-6........ 26,80,419 4,382,472 4,446,924 8,829,396 35,630,8I5
1906-7........ 28,204,658 7,550,396 4,565,739 12,116,I35 40,320,793
1907-8....... 30,468,798 11,585,779.... 11,585,779 42,054,577
1908-9......... 31,464,161 17,212,414.... I7,212,414 48,676,575
I909-I0........ 32,318,222 11,843,163.... 11,843,163 44,161,385
a Expenditures included in this table do not necessarily agree in contents with the figures given
in the government's reports on settled accounts, as regards the civil list and the expenditures. For
judicial affairs the amounts are the same as the figures in the reports on settled accounts. But the
expenditures for foreign affairs in the above statistics represent the expenditures under the control
of the Department of Foreign Affairs, with the exclusion of the expenditures for colonies, but with
the addition of the expenditures of the special accounts for Japanese settlements abroad which are
under our exclusive jurisdiction. The expenditures for home affairs mean the expenditures under
the control of the Department for Home Affairs, with the exclusion of expenses relating to railways
and of expenses other than those for peace preservation. The appropriations described as expenditures for other important organs of the state represent those expenses under the control of the
Department of Finance which are appropriations for the Cabinet, the Privy Council, the two Houses
of the Diet, and others.
As will be seen from the foregoing table, the ordinary
expenditures gradually rose to 28,840,000 yen before the war,
falling during the war to sums varying from 27,470,000 yen to
26,800,000 yen. Of the extraordinary expenditures, regular
expenses, which ranged from 7,540,000 yen to 10,960,000 yen
before the war, decreased to amounts from 9,250,000 yen to
4,380,000 yen during the war. There were, however, war
expenses reaching 1,240,000 yen to 4,560,000 yen. The extraordinary expenditures as a whole showed more or less
decline, totaling from I2,II0,000 yen to 8,820,000 yen. The
grand total of expenditures for peace preservation, which
advanced from 33,030,000 yen to 38,730,000 yen before the
war, saw a diminution during the war, falling to the figures
from 35,630,000 yen to 40,320,000 yen.
The expenditures for developmental administration also
declined, having been influenced by the necessity of raising
war funds. Of ordinary expenditures, the appropriations for
communications had their tendency to increase arrested, if