Can Japan buy foreign fields ?

How can food-import-countries secure their food ?

As you know, Japan has large population in small country; people 12times more than that in sweden live in land smaller than sweden. Besides, land reform that was enforced in 1947 divided farmland much smaller. Moreover, wages in Japan has became very high because of rapidly developing after WWⅡ. Such factors has made Japan depended their food on other countries.

Now, because of increasing price of grain, Japan is worrying about their food self-sufficiency raito that is the lowest rank of OECD nations. But strangely, Japanese concern is only domestic matters such as changing eating habit or joining their small farmland for improving productivity.

This article introduced us the measures of other food-import-country, and show the solution that buying fields in foreign country to secure foods. That is very reasonable. I think Japanese should think such solution because it is too late when food crisis happens or other country keeps their land for foods.