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Population and Urbanization Trends in Post‐war Japan
Author(s) -
Yamada Hiroyuki,
Tokuoka Kazuyuki
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
asian economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.345
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-8381
pISSN - 1351-3958
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8381.1996.tb00165.x
Subject(s) - urbanization , metropolitan area , suburbanization , economic geography , population , geography , megacity , regional science , economic growth , economy , economics , demography , sociology , archaeology
This paper analyses the population change and urbanization process in post‐war Japan. We trace the process of population concentration into urban areas, in parallel with economic development after the war. The concentration of population into urban areas can be characterized by three major metropolitan regions: Tokyo, Keihanshin (Kyoto‐Osaka‐Kobe) and Nagoya. We also show that the urbanization process of Japan in the period from 1965 to 1985 can be characterized by two spatial phenomena; firstly, the suburbanization of the existing metropolitan areas and, secondly, the spatial dispersal of urbanized areas.