JAPAN. 



FLUCTUATIONS IN PRICEvS AND WAGES 



OFFICIAX SOURCES: 



Annuaire financier ex ECONOMiQUE Du JAPON {Japanese Financial andEconomic Yearbook) . 

 13th. Year 191 3. Tokio Imperial Press. 



Nippon Teikoku dai sanjuichi tokei nenkan (3is< Statistical Yearbook of the Japanese Em- 

 pire) Tokio, 191 2 



Nippon no kome {Japanese Rice). Department of Agriculture and Commerce. Tokio. 1909. 



OTHER SOURCES: 



Yokohama shogyokwaigisho kikan geppo {Monthly Bulletin of the Yokohama Chamber 



of Commerce). Years 1911, 1912, 1913. Yokohama. 

 Abe (I.): Roclosha seikeihi mondai {The Problem of the Cost of Living for Workmen's Families). 



Summarised from the Review Taiyo, December, 1912. Vol. XVIII. No. 16. 

 HoNi>A (Dr. S.): Beika kwan {A Glance at the Problem of the Price of Rice). Summarised from the 



Review Taiyo, August, 1912. vol XVIII. No. 11. 

 Teikimai no -RORPiKV {Reduction of the Price of Rice at Fixed Terms) . Summarised from the Tokyo 



keizai Zasshi. July 19th., 1913, vol. 68. no. 1,707. 

 Beika toki to nojhn {Increased Price of Rice and the Farmers). Summarised from the ChuKwai 



Shogyo Shimpo of January 15th,, 1913. 



Introduction. 



The general fact of the rise in price of provisions and in house rent, 

 which is becoming daily more observable in every countr\^ and is giving 

 rise to discontent among the poorer classes and causing men of science 

 and those in authority to seek means for its arrest, has also afEected Japan. 

 The rapid political and economic transformation of the country has made 

 it more sensible to the effects of this prodigious progress than another 

 country would be. 



It must not, however, be imagined that before the Restoration Japan 

 had not sometimes suffered from severe economic crises, both local and gen- 

 eral, but the causes were of a far more simple order than those at work 

 to-day. Consequently, it was easier to devise remedies and the crises 



