Landlords were no longer supreme and rural society was restructured, so the rural population became supportive of the ruling conservative party. But land reform had little effect on agricultural production. Land ownership was transferred from landlords to tillers of the soil, and small tenant farmers became small owner-cultivators, with no apparent change in farm size. The traditional agricultural production structure from prewar Japan remained. The income and standard of living of rural people may have improved, but it is not clear to what extent land reform contributed to capital formation in agriculture.
More empirical work is needed.
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