How were farmers able to afford to buy land?
the us government funded the purchase of land.
the japanese government sold land at a reasonable price.
the japanese government redistributed all land equally.
the wealthy had to sell land to them in installments.

Farmers were able to afford to buy land since the Japanese government sold land at a reasonable price. Option B is correct.

Farmer is the term used to refers to a person who works in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term farmer refers to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.