Abstract
The purpose of this report is to analize the spatial structure of urbanization in Kanto-Tohoku district of Japan. This disrict has an area of 99176km^2 and a population 42000000. The study covered such variables on economy and land use as : Number of establishments per persons, Annual gross sale per persons (1000yen), Income per persons (1000yen), Income by farming per farmers (1000yen), Potential of local government finance, Farming productivity of land (1000yen per 10a), Change of farm and area, Land price (1000yen per 3.3m^2) Traffic volume on the national road (1965, 74), Number of trains of the national rail road (1955, 75). As a result, these variables commonly related to the following phases of urbanization : Stage 1. Acceleration from rural side to urban side, Stage 2. Class organization by conflicts between cities, Stage 3. Extra-regionalization by influence of metropolis, Stage 4. Regression (i.e. decentralization, deconcentralization and reorganization of regional structure).
