英文摘要
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This article discusses and compares the systems of food procurement and rationing in wartime Taiwan, Japan and Korea. During the Second World War, the government of Japan perceived the need to control resources when engaging in a total war, but they did not employ measures of food procurement and rationing at the beginning, because the government seemed to believe there was a surplus of food, particularly grains. In the autumn of 1939, Korea and west Japan had a short supply of rice due to natural disasters. The government of Japan began to take emergency measures of food procurement and rationing to solve the problem. Thereafter, these measures were enforced throughout Japan and Korea. These measures were enforced in Taiwan even earlier because more rice supply was demanded by Japan during the war. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan introduced a new unified management system of food procurement and rationing. It was not enforced in Taiwan and Korea until 1943, when Japan suffered an acute shortage of food and demanded more rice to be shipped to Japan from the colonies.
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