Explaining the Recent Migration Trends of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Bibliographic Data

ID4140880
AuthorsYoshitaka Ishikawa (0000-0002-1092-0295, Kyoto University, corresponding author), A J Fielding (University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume30
Issue10
Pages1797-1814
Publication date1998-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a301797
PMID12294157
OpenAlexW1976658626
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited21

The year 1994 was a very significant year for the Japanese urban system. In that year the Tokyo metropolitan area (TMA), which had enjoyed a net inflow of interregional migrants since the 1950s, recorded a net outflow for the first time. What factors gave rise to such a remarkable migration change for the area? The results from a set of time-series analyses lead the authors to conclude that, as far as the study period (1979-92) as a whole is concerned, the changing migration pattern of the TMA arose from factors closely related to Tokyo's transformation into a world city (specifically in terms of industrial restructuring and changes in residential land prices) and from cycles of economic boom and bust. However, it was found that the change to world city was more important than the economic cycle. Such findings suggest that the Japanese migration system experienced structural change during the 1980s and entered a new phase in the 1990s

Boom · Bust · Economic geography · Economic restructuring · Economics · Economy · Geography · Metropolitan area · Net migration rate · Political science · Population · Population growth · Restructuring · Sociology · Demography · Environmental Science · Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urbanization and City Planning

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