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Farming families were mostly spared from hunger, since they produced their own food. However, most Japanese citizens bought food from the markets, which were contingent on the rationing system. In response, the Japanese government encouraged families to vacate cities for better conditions in the countryside.
Assisted interned Japanese during World War II Robert Emmett Fletcher Jr. (July 26, 1911 – May 23, 2013) was an American agricultural inspector who quit his job to care for the fruit farms of Japanese families during World War II , after many Japanese Americans were forcibly sent to concentration camps as a result of Executive Order 9066 .
There were a reported 69 Japanese families in the Yamato Colony in 1940, farming more than 3,700 acres (1,500 ha). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At the beginning of World War II , in anticipation of internment , most of the residents of Yamato and two other colonies established by Abiko, Cressey , and Cortez , formed a corporation headed by a European-American ...
Agriculture in the Empire of Japan was an important component of the pre-war Japanese economy. Although Japan had only 16% of its land area under cultivation before the Pacific War, over 45% of households made a living from farming. Japanese cultivated land was mostly dedicated to rice, which accounted for 15% of world rice production in 1937.
The rations issued by the Imperial Japanese Government usually consisted of rice with barley, meat or fish, pickled or fresh vegetables, umeboshi, shoyu sauce, miso or bean paste, and green tea. [2] A typical field ration would have 1½ cups of rice, usually mixed with barley to combat nutritional deficiencies such as beriberi . [ 3 ]
The Tokugawa Japan during a long period of “closed country” autarky between the mid-seventeenth century and the 1850s had achieved a high level of urbanization; well-developed road networks; the channeling of river water flow with embankments and the extensive elaboration of irrigation ditches that supported and encouraged the refinement of rice cultivation based upon improving seed ...
Meat consumption increased more than seven-fold after the end of World War II. [14] An analysis of the 2019 Japan National Health and Nutrition Survey showed that red meat was in excess of the upper limit of the planetary health diet the modern Japanese diet; the highest excess was in respondents in their 40s and declined with increasing age. [15]
A photograph of a group of mostly Japanese farming families, taken in 1923, was displayed at the Malaga Cove Library in Palos Verdes Estates.In 2005, reference librarian Marjeanne Blinn started the 40 Families History Project, to "preserve the soon-to-be-forgotten history of the Peninsula’s Japanese American settlement to educate future generations."