The Japanese Government’s Unemployment Countermeasures In1920s

Unemployment is the development of capitalist society to a certain stage willinevitably produce a social phenomenon, the root causes of the contradiction of the basiccontradictions of the capitalist system-the socialization of production and privateownership of means of production. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan vigorously thedevelopment of capitalist economy, after two foreign wars, the Industrial Revolution,among the world’s capitalist powers. The late19th century to early20th century as a resultof the war economy, the capitalist economy has made rapid development. But toodependent on external markets and resources of the Japanese economy after the war was ablow to the economic recovery of Europe and the United States, Japan’s foreign tradevolume to shrink, and in the1920s, due to the basic contradictions of the capitalist systemand external reasons, Japan began a series of economic crisis. The crisis has led to a largenumber of enterprises to reduce the scale of production or even bankruptcy, and thus alarge number of unemployed persons, the Japanese society, there have been seriousunemployment.The Japanese government to face the first time since the Meijirshin, a large number ofstaff lost their jobs to the social conditions of living on the streets, in order to maintainsocial stability, starting to focus on how to solve the unemployment problem. Relief careersurvey in1919submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs of the outline of a report onunemployment protection, which includes a reward to the peasant, the popularity of theemployment agency, etc., various labor groups also continue to put forward their claims tothe government or organized workers initiated oppose unemployment movement. Undersuch circumstances, the Japanese government were introduced in the1920s returned toagriculture policy, to carry out the cause of unemployment benefits, the establishment of anemployment agency in the country such as unemployment countermeasures attempt toimplement these unemployment countermeasures to absorb the unemployed to participatein the Civil reward their livelihoods through the introduction of an employment agency toget jobs, in order to solve the problem of unemployment in Japan at the time projectconstruction. Implementation of these unemployed countermeasures to some extent, indeedalleviate the embarrassment of the situation of part of the unemployed live, but notfundamentally solve the problem of unemployment, this thoroughness so many people stillcan not employment, In1930s Japan government to accelerate the pace of outwardexpansion as soon as possible to accommodate these unemployed people, unemploymentcountermeasures did not thoroughly become one of the factors that accelerate the warbegan.