2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Long period and Empirical Research on Labor Migration 1885-1955
| Project/Area Number |
11630078
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
TANIMOTO Masayuki The Univ. of Tokyo, Graduate School of Economics, Associate Professor, 経済学研究科, 助教授 (10197535)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Labor migration / Rural population / Peasant economy / Indigenous economic development / Urban economy / Labor market / Pre-war Japanese economy / Post-war Japanese economy |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project has intended to clarify how Japanese rural society reacted to the industrialization or the modernization through investigating the migration process between villages and cities. The method was the systematic analysis of the village governing archives concerning migrations of its inhabitants. The archives we found - Kitakata city hall archives - were completely fitted to our purposes. We copied various books and papers in microfilm form, and also have input their information to the personal computer. Our efforts to make date bases of inhabitants' migrating activities have almost finished. The analysis of the migrating activities in post-war period - 1945-49 - were also almost completed. We found that the out-flow of the village inhabitants exceeded in-flow even in 1946. These facts indicate that the Japanese peasant households practiced their reproduction strategies even in the period of disorder such as the years immediately after the Second World War. These facts findings are favorable to the concept of indigenous economic development which we proposed localize the characteristics of Japanese industrialization. We are also ready to analyze the prewar period.
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