An Analysis of Japan's Rural Finance System

Japanese rural finance system has many important characteristics including governmental policy support,financial aid,clear division and close integration between cooperative finance and policy-based finance,establishing agricultural credit and guarantee insurance system and dual regulation system,establishing relatively rational and perfect framework of rural finance system.With the development of Japan's economy,although Japan's rural finance system faces new problem,its operation is more successful.China's current agricultural development situation is similar to that of Japan's and it is worth considering for improving China's finance system to analyze Japan's rural finance experience.