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Akio Nawakura, National Federation of Depopulated Municipalities in Japan, JapanAbstract
This study asks why the local governmental actors in South Korea (hereafter, Korea) have revised its policies to secure agricultural workforces faster than those in Japan focusing on the measures for agricultural extension and training. Korea and Japan share not only the feature of agricultural structure but also the shortage of agricultural workforces due to the aging and population decrease. While Japan has revised its approaches to secure agricultural workforces gradually, Korea has done rapidly and actively. The author’s literature review and interview of local government officers in the two countries indicate that the features of developmental state such as autonomous status by governmental actors in Korea contribute to the rapid and active revision. While the governmental sector in Korea holds autonomy from private actors, that in Japan tends to collaborate with private actors such as agricultural cooperatives. Differently from the age of developmental state in the 20th Century, however, the policy making in Korea has been decentralized recently.
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Conference: ACSS2025Stream: Politics
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Nawakura A. (2025) Agricultural Human Resource Policies in the Age of Agricultural Labor Shortage: A Comparative Analysis on South Korea and Japan ISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 73-85) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.7
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.7
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