among many other items, the section produced a memorandum of basic policies and activities considered essential to maximizing the availability of supplies of food in japan, a study of japanese agriculture and related problems, a systematic digest of japanese agricultural agencies, channels of authority and functions of various units, a study of land tenure in relation to farm labor, a study on problems of increasing agricultural production, an outline of policies plans, procedure, etc., with reference to land reclamation, and a study of the organization and operation of the ministry of agriculture. in addition to its work on japanese agriculture, the section did considerable work of highly classified nature on agricultural problems of the east china coast. this was based on the assumption that s-5(planning) might be charged with the responsibility for planning military government operations for this area.