"Improved Japanese Rice Cultivation Method"

...He later became a professor at the Imperial University's College of Agriculture, and was promoted to Director of the Agricultural Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (1903). The agronomist Sakamaka wrote "Improved Japanese Rice Cultivation Methods" (1887) and criticized empirical rice cultivation methods, and as an agricultural politician he established various agricultural laws and provided authoritarian agricultural guidance. After he left the government in 1906 and became president of Dainihon Sugar Co., Ltd., a corruption scandal involving the protection of the sugar industry (the Nippon Sugar Scandal) broke out, and although he himself was innocent, he took responsibility and committed suicide. ...

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…のちに帝国大学農科大学教授をへて農商務省農務局長に昇進(1903)した。農学者酒勾は《改良日本稲作法》(1887)を著して経験的稲作法を批判し，農政家としては各種農業法令を整備し，強権的農事指導を行った。1906年官を辞し大日本製糖の社長に就任後，糖業保護に関する汚職事件〈日糖疑獄〉がおこり，彼自身は潔白であったが，責任をとり自殺した。…

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