Japan

Internal migration and population decline

Bibliographic Data

ID4712641
AuthorsTony Fielding (0000-0001-7209-9431, University of Sussex Brighton UK, corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-12-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/geoj.12612
OpenAlexW4405137895
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited33

Examining the interdependencies between internal migration and national population decline in Japan, this paper begins by analysing the impacts of internal migration on national fertility decline, for example, through the early post-World War II flows from high-fertility countrysides to low-fertility cities. It then focuses on the way in which, in the context of national population decline, internal migration exacerbates the problems facing Japan's rural areas by adding population loss and, in particular, the loss of young adult populations, to the mounting problems of public and private-sector disinvestment, job losses, ageing (both social and physical) and the abandonment of land use and built form

Abandonment (legal · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Disinvestment · Economic growth · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Interdependence · Internal migration · Market economy · Political science · Population · Population ageing · Population decline · Projections of population growth · Sociology · Demography · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Urbanization and City Planning

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