SECTION IL.—DEMAND FOR MANCHURIAN BEANS
ON DIFFERENT MARKETS

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As already given, about 1926, Beans exported from
Manchuria were 18,110,000 ‘‘koku’’ or so a year. Of course
the rates of shipments vary according to years, but roughly
speaking, about 8,800,000 ‘‘koku’’ goes to Japan; about
2,000,000 “‘koku” for Europe; about 600,000 ‘‘loku’’ for
Java; and 1,000,000 ‘“‘koku’’ elsewhere.

We shall now dwell briefly upon the Bean demand
conditions on the different markets for Manchurian Beans.

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(1) DEMAND For MaNCHURIAN BEANS IN JAPAN

The Bean consumption in Japan proper was about
1,500,000 ‘“‘koku’ prior to 1907 (according to the mean
for the preceding 10 years) without a remarkable increase
or decrease. Since, the consumption amount has increased
by degrees attaining the zenith by 1919 in which year
9,140,000 ‘‘koku’’ was used.
Why, since 1907, the Bean consumption gradually increased
 was mainly because, by reason of the Bean milling
industry, Beans as working materials were imported from
Manchuria into Japan. The acme of prosperity was reached
in 1919, in the latter part of the Great War, in which the
Japanese economic community was still in the inflated
stage. As the War ended, the universal wave of economic

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