Shopping - kaidashi

This refers particularly to the trips of city residents to nearby rural areas to buy food, which took place towards the end of the Pacific War and immediately after the war. As food problems caused by the war worsened, a rice rationing system was introduced in 1941 (Showa 16), but from 1942 onwards, the amount of staple food rationed effectively decreased, and side dishes became even more scarce. In response, the government strengthened restrictions on vegetable purchases, but as the rationing system became more hollow, it became commonplace for city residents to go shopping in nearby rural areas, and food was traded at black market prices several times the official price. After the war, rationing became even more sluggish, and purchases in violation of economic controls increased even more dramatically.

[Shiro Akazawa]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

とくに太平洋戦争末期から終戦直後にかけて行われた都市住民の近郊農村への食糧買出しをいう。戦争による食糧問題の深刻化に伴って1941年（昭和16）米の配給制が始められるが、42年以降、主食の配給量は実質的に低下していき、副食物はさらに欠乏していった。そのなかで政府は、野菜の買出し制限などを強化するが、配給制が空洞化するに伴い都市住民の近郊農村への買出しは日常化し、食糧は公定価格の数倍の闇(やみ)価格で取引された。戦後、配給はいっそう滞り、経済統制違反の買出しはさらに激増した。

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