2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on the factors that caused the commencement of the fertility decline in Japan: Comparative analysis between the East and the West of the Archipelago
| Project/Area Number |
25285151
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Shimane University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
小林 准士 島根大学, 法文学部, 教授 (80294354)
宮本 恭子 島根大学, 法文学部, 准教授 (50709128)
平井 晶子 神戸大学, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (30464259)
高橋 眞一 新潟産業大学, 経済学部, 教授 (80030683)
小池 司朗 国立社会保障・人口問題研究所, 人口構造研究部, 室長 (80415827)
橋本 貴彦 立命館大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80510726)
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| Research Collaborator |
OGAWA Masako 島根大学, 法文学部山陰研究センター, 客員研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 人口転換 / 地域分析 / 出生力 / 近代人口増加の開始 / 飢饉 / 回船業 / たたら製鉄 / 新田開発 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Iwami-Izumo region was a typical region of the western Japan where the population increased (annually slightly less than 0.2%) over the period of from 1721 to 1846 which is remarkable compared with that it decreased in the eastern Japan. Regarding to Iwami-Izumo region, we found that the region can be divided into three areas: seaside, intermediate and mountainous; in the seaside area, fish peddling and shipping along with fishery boosted; in the intermediate area, rice cropping evolved including field-developing; and in the mountainous area, iron producing and mining other metals attracts workers. Each area by the economic activities in the mode of pre-capitalist production sustained its specific level of population increase through mostly natural increase including sudden contraction by the famine and the restoration thereafter.
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| Free Research Field |
歴史人口学
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