60 SOCIAL SCIENTIST
09 One cho equals 0.9917 hectare. Ao Masaru Kajita, ^Land Reform in Japan" Agricultural Development Series, No. 2
Tokyo 1959, pp 28-30. 41 Ibid., 41. ^ Ibid.
43 Interview with T Matsuzawa, Diet member and representative from Niigata prefecture.
44 R P Dore, Land Re form in Japan, op. cit., p 151.
45 Ibid., p 153.
46 Nochi Kaikaku Kiroku linkai ^Committee to Record the Rural Land Refom):
Nochi Kaikaku Tenmatsu Gaiyo (Outline of the results of Rural Land Reform), Tokyo,p 510.
47 Agricultural Land Department, Sanko Shiryo (Reference Materials), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, November 1947, (mimeograph,) Table 9, p 14.
48 Nochi Kaikaku op. cit., p 513.
49 TOgura, agrarian Problems and .Agricultural Polity in Japan, The Institute of Asian
Economic Affairs, Tokyo 1967, pp 21-22. 60 R P Dore, Land Reform in Japan, op. cit., p 165. 51 Ibid., p 166. 62 Based on interviews with several union leaders.
53 In Allan B Cole, George 0 Totten and Cecil H Uyehara, op. cit., p 386.
54 In a personal communication. Prof. Dore indicated that after the War it became increasingly appropriate to translate the name of Nichino, Mhon JVomin Kumiai, as Japanese Farmers Union as he generally does, while before the war Japanese Peasants Union was more appropriate.
55 Information supplied by N Imamura and obtained during interviews with several cooperative directors.