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

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burdens, which necessitated the sale of their land to meet
pressing needs; (b) the sale of land as a result of the increased
burdens on it, actual or anticipatory; and (c) the miserable
conditions of the peasants in the northeastern provinces,
caused by the bad crop failure in I1902 and intensified by the
war. Thus, the frequency of transference of land ownership led to the corresponding depreciation of land value.'

TRANSFERENCE OF LAND OWNERSHIP, I903-I904
No. of cases Value of land
Tax administration -_____-_____ ______
bureaus I0 I94 Increase or 193 I0
1903 1904 ~decrease 193 90
Sapporo. 30,668:27,I70 - 3,498 55 50
Tokyo.....382,381 391,432 + 9,051 140 1 40
Kyoto..3,818,119 3,830,950 + 12,831 I 152 146
Osaka.....225,627 260,1I68 + 34,54I 159 I46
Yokohama.......1i61,402 1 67,402 + 5,535 159 I46
Kobe. 204,757 214,721 + 9,964 I50 140.
Nagasaki. 251,836 253,326 + 1,500 141 130
Nagano..510,996 603,1I66 + 92,I70 147 I27
Utsunomiya....241,229 301,478 + 60,249 115 99
Nagoya...460,377 472,1I51 + 11,774 165 I45
Sendai. 580,185 719,994 +1I39,8o9 97 82
Akita.1i85,789 302,418 +ii6,629 129 115
Kanazawa. 505,009 599,828 + 94,819 I52 I39
Matsue.1I74,999 138,586 - 36,413 110 91I
Hiroshima. 235,062 296,042 + 60,980 i65 I52
Marugame........491,857 537,990 + 46,043 125 III
Kumamoto. 454,219 459,267 + 4,048 i8i I23
Kagoshima. 403,937 406,746 + 2,809 88 62
Total...9,318,8914 9,981,755 +662,84I

Though there exists much material to prove the poverty 'or
exhaustion of the agricultural population on account of the
burdens of the war, the above are the most conspicuous facts,
in our estimation, and will suffice to indicate the general
trend of the effects of the war upon the agricultural people.
1 Reports by the Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Department on the war-time
conditions of local finance and economy.