On The Transfer Of Agricultural Labor Force In Japan

It is a common phenomenon that surplus labors appear in rural labor force and transfer to cities or non-agriculture industries. It usually happens to nations during their process of moving from traditional economy to modem economy. This process is also an inexorable trend in economic development. As a developed industrialized country, Japan has already finished this phase. Based on objective description of Japanese rural labor force transfer process, this article is to analyze the characteristics, the reasons and the conditions of Japanese labor force transfer, and also to evaluate the transfer mode of Japanese rural labor force.The transfer mode of Japanese rural surplus labor force has some peculiarity among developed countries. On the aspect of transfer speed, Japan is the quickest, but rural labor transfer also leaves many sequelae to Japanese agriculture. We cannot say that there was no relationship between rural labor transfer mode and the lack of competitiveness of Japanese agriculture and nowadays "hollowing-out" phenomenon facing Japanese rural labor force.Without doubts, the transfer experience of Japan's rural labor is successful on promoting national industrialization and agricultural modernization. However, there are also some negative effects to Japan's agriculture caused by rural labor transfer, such as aging and feminizing of rural labor force, high-quality talent's loss, and deteriorating grain safety problem, etc. The classical western theory did not analyze the alienation phenomenon appeared in the course of rural surplus labor transfer in Japan: the rural labor force developing from surplus to hollowing-out Therefore, this problem needs our further study and discussion.Nowadays, there are about 150 million surplus labors in rural area of our country. The existence of so many surplus rural labors affected the "three rural" problem solving and the development of the whole national economy and societybadly. In China, promoting the transfer of rural labor force to non-agriculture industries has become a social common understanding. However, transfer is not for the sake of transfer, it is only an approach to develop economy and society. Therefore, when facing the problem of how to boost the rural surplus labor, we should not make a haste conclusion. Carefully sum-up the experience and lessons of Japan may help us to avoid the problems appear in Japan rural surplus labor transfer. Therefore ensure China successfully moving from dual-economy to modern economy.