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

138 ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

the amount was not actually curtailed, on account of the wartime need of communications, while the expenditures for
education showed a decrease all round. In extraordinary
expenditures, though various items of extraordinary-affairs
expenses went to swell the appropriations, a large reduction
in regular expenses had the opposite effect, resulting in a
considerable decrease in the total of these expenditures. The
expenditures for communications showed the largest decrease
in regular items, recording, however, the largest increase in
extraordinary-affairs items. The increases or decreases in
appropriations for agriculture and commerce as well as for
education were comparatively slight, both in ordinary and
in extraordinary items. Thus, the expenditures during the
war for developmental administration somewhat declined in
ordinary items, sharply decreased in extraordinary items, and
more or less sharply decreased in the total amount.
DEVELOPMENTAL ADMINISTRATION EXPENDITURES, I900-I9IOa
Extraordinary
Fiscal year Ordinary tota
Regular War Total
Yen Yen Yen Yen Yen
1900-I......... 25,068,073 I7,035,257.... I7,035,257 42,IO3,330
19OI-2......... 27,258,288 16,179,029.... I6,179,029 43,437,3I7
I902-3........ 28,246,165 17,985,661.... I7,985,661 46,231,826
I903-4....... 29,659,376 I9,095,I67 9,289 I9,I04,456 48,763,832
1904-5....... 28,829,936 9,828,278 2,400,525 I2,228,813 4I,058,749
I905-6........ 28,963,782 7,757,239 4,43I,845 I2,I89,084 4I,I52,866
I906-7........ 32,667,582 I6,399,728 608,8I2 I7,008,540 49,676,I22
I907-8...... 35,903,342 22,641,761.... 22,641,761 58,545,I03
I908-9......... 39,294,07I 28,041,938.... 28,041,938 67,336,009
I909-I........ 41,67I,136 26,965,650.... 26,965,650 68,636,786
a The above statistics represent the expenditures of the general accounts coming under the control of the Departments of Education, Agriculture and Commerce, and Communications, excluding
expenditures foreign to the purpose of this table, but adding some items of other kinds of expenditures which ought to be included here, as well as the expenditures for schools and libraries, which
were handled in the special accounts.
*As indicated in the above table, the ordinary expenditures
for developmental administration, which reached 29,650,000
yen before the war, decreased during the war to amounts
from 28,820,000 yen to 28,960,000 yen. The extraordinary