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 in- 
creased 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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