What policies did the early rulers of Japan engage in that encouraged greater productivity?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Japan's programs to increase productivity
1. development of new foodstuffs
2. the exploitation of underexploited frontiers
3. the adaptation of new areas for cultivation
B. Policies of rulers of Japan to encourage productivity
1. Japanese rulers took seriously their responsibility to regulate their subjects' relations with the natural world
2. ambitious environmental policies to appease the forces of nature
a. decree authorized aristocrats to apply to provincial governors for permission to cultivate virgin land at their own expense
b. added 2.5 million acres to the area devoted to rice production
c. farmers became eligible to inherit newly cultivated fields for three generations if they irrigated those fields from new ditches or ponds
d. farmers acquired absolute ownership of such lands
3. state was growing more confident about its ability to manage the environment and keep disaster at bay by the ninth century
a. resulted in increased population
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