In 1883 or 84 the Area of tenant farms and of non—tenant farms by districts and cities began to be registered in "the Prefectural Books of Statistics." This registration of the Area continued untill 1940's. We can calculate according to these statistics the percentage of tenant farms, through which we can get the idea how "the Land Ownership" developed.
This paper aims at presenting the fundamental date toward the study of the Japanese Land Owner System.
Our procedures were:
(1) to tabulate the percentage of tenant farms by districts and cities all over the country from 1883 • 84 to 1940's;
(2) to indicate the percentage of tenant farms by formersystem districts in sub—tables; and, based on these tables,
(3) to clarify and analyse the fluctuations of the percentage of tenant farms and the Regional features of it.