A Study On The Spatial And Regional Choice Of The Current Japanese Overseas Cultivated Land Investment

Japan is the world's third-largest economy, the tenth largest population. And has the world's second largest foreign exchange reserves. Japan started investing in overseas farming in 1917. To safeguard the country's food security. Also established a special coordinate overseas institutions of agricultural activity. The purpose of the investment is to obtain food. To alleviate the serious situation of food security in China. According to the statistics, the scale of investment in Japan has reached 12 million hectares. Equivalent too three times as many domestic arable land. By the end of August 2012, Japan's overseas investment accounts for 1.5% of the total size of global investment.Foreign direct investment theory is a theoretical basis of this article. And combined with other relevant documents. With the help of Land Matrix, World Bank, GRAIN, for investment related data such as FAO of Japanese overseas cultivated land selection, distribution and change trend of comprehensive and systematic analysis. Select 8 years relevant economic data in 2006-2013. The Japanese investment in 33 countries. On the data of unit root test and linear regression analysis. An empirical study on the main influencing factors of Japanese overseas cultivated land investment spatial and regional choice, and then puts forward the conclusions: Japanese overseas cultivated land investment is more inclined to distribute in the close distance between the two countries, the national economic level is relatively large market, relatively high level of labor quality of the country or region. Japanese overseas cultivated land investment is more inclined to the high risk of the country, the protection of foreign investment is weak but the policy is more favorable countries and regions. Japanese overseas cultivated land investment are more likely in the area of arable land is rich in resources, and to obtain the ownership of the land of the host country or can only be to obtain the right to use, Japan has a tendency to obtain the right to use, rather than ownership. So as to China for overseas cultivated land investment spatial and regional choice for reference.