Parti: Co-operation and Association 



JAPAN. 



THE PRESENT POSITION OF CO-OPERATION IN JAPAN. 



OFFICIAI, SOURCE : 



Zaneoku Sangy6-Kttmiai GaikyA (The General Position of Co-operation in Japan). Ministry 

 of Agriculture and Commerce, Department of Agriculture, Tokyo, May 1916. 



In the Bulletin des Institutions Economiques et Sociales issued on 30 Sep- 

 tember 1910 we published a detailed statistical report of Japanese co-opera- 

 tive societies. It was based on the report published by the Japanese 

 ^linistry of Agriculture and Commerce in November 1909; and therefore it 

 could not show the beneficent effects of the new law on co-operative 

 societies, which the Diet of the Empire approved on 8 April 1909 but which 

 had force only from i January in^the ensuing 3^ear. 



Subsequentl}' on 20 January and 10 September 1912 the IMinistry of 

 Agriculture and Commerce published two new statistical reports ; and there- 

 fore in our issue for Januar^^ 1913 we published data which brought us 

 up to 30 June 1912. The following tables reproduce data published in 

 Japanese in ]May 1916 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce ; and, 

 with the exceptions indicated in the annexed notes, they show the position 

 of co-operation on 31 December 1915. 



