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2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Time-geographic comparative analysis on the coordination of household activities in Japan and China

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13837009
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

OKAMOTO Kohei  Nagoya University, Department of Geography, Professor, 環境学研究科, 教授 (90201988)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) OKUNUKI Keiichi  Nagoya University, Department of Geography, Associate Professor, 環境学研究科, 助教授 (90272369)
TAHARA Yuko  Kokugakuin University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (40282511)
ARAI Yoshio  University of Tokyo, Department of Human Geography, Professor, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (50134408)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
KeywordsChina and Japan / urban household / women's labor force participation / child care / time geography / human activity
Research Abstract

This study focuses to the characteristics of human activities in Chinese cities compared with Japanese cities based on a time-geographic approach. We constructed a database of human activities derived from the previous surveys carried out in the selected cities both of China and of Japan. These include the activity data acquired by the surveys in three Japanese cities ; Shimosuwa, Nissin and Kawagoe since 1988 and the surveys in three Chinese cities ; Dalian, Tianjin and Shenzhen since 1995. Activity diaries method was employed in each surveys. Besides, we engaged in an interview survey in several Chinese cities in 2000-2001. The interviewees includes the administrators of day nurseries, the elderies in the nursing homes, and a migrant housekeeper.
The analysis of data base reveals the resemblance between married men and women in all aspects of daily activities in China. Commuting distance and working hours of married women are quite similar to of men. Chinese married women appears to have wider job opportunities than of Japanese.
High working rate in full-time jobs of Chinese married women is maintained by well-prepared child care services as well as affordable housemaid services. The interview survey suggests some social backgrounds enabling these services ;1)a tradition that local governments and firms in China as well as the national government have regarded women's full-time working as important,2)flexible attitudes of original families towards child care,3)an abundant supply of relatively cheap female labor suitable for housemaid services due to a huge economic disparity between industrialized cities and firming villages.

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] 荒井良雄: "外出活動の日中都市比較"東京大学人文地理学研究. 16. 1-39 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 岡本耕平: "生活活動調査からみた中国の都市交通"東京大学人文地理学研究. 16. 41-53 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 柴 彦威, 劉 志林: "中国都市における単位制度の変化と生活活動および都市構造への影響"東京大学人文地理学研究. 16. 55-78 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 田原裕子: "「単位」からの自立を求められる高齢-転換期の中国高齢者福祉と社会保障-"東京大学人文地理学研究. 16. 79-104 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 西村雄一郎: "中国都市の職場・家庭におけるジェンダー役割と生活時間配分"東京大学人文地理学研究. 16. 105-119 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 長沼佐枝, 和田康喜: "中国3都市(大連・深セン・天津)の生活活動データ:資料"東京大学人文地理学研究. 16. 121-133 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Yoshio ARAI: "On Human Activity Systems in Chinese and Japanese Cities : A Comparative Study"Komaba Studies in Human Geography. volume 16. 1-39 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Kohei OKAMOTO: "China's Urban Transport and Human Activities"Komaba Studies in Human Geography. volume 16. 41-53 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Yanwei CHAI, Zhilin LIU: "The Transformation of Work Unit System in China ; Its Implication to Individual Daily Life and Urban Spatial Restructuring"Komaba Studies in Human Geography. volume 16. 55-78 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Yuko TAHARA: "The Society Aging and Social Welfare Systems for the Elderly in China."Komaba Studies in Human Geography. volume 16. 79-104 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Yuichiro NISHIMURA: "Gender Role in the Workplace and the Home in Chinese Cities : A Time-Budget Analysis"Komaba Studies in Human Geography. volume 16. 105-119 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Sae NAGANUMA, Yasunobu WADA: "Human Activity Data in Three Chinese Cities : Dalian, Shenzhen and Tianjing"Komaba Studies in Human Geography. volume 16. 121-133 (2003)

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