Forestry and the forest industry in Japan
economy, the national goal for forests and forestry has been to build up the forest resource
rapidly and satisfy the demand for forest products by utilizing domestic resources. In order to
accomplish this, the central government has treated private forestry sympathetically through
several policy instruments. In the early postwar period, the government subsidized half the
planting cost in order to rapidly reforest areas destroyed in the war. Afforestation on bare land
was completed within a decade, and then reforestation from natural to artificial forest came to
be regarded as important. After 1957, 48% of the planting cost for such reforestation was
provided as a subsidy by the central government, compared with 24% for the replanting of
artificial forests. The amount of subsidy has changed several times, but the relative difference
has been maintained up to the present.
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