INTERNAL MIGRATION IN JAPAN

Abstract

The most significant internal migrations of people in Japan can be grouped in three categories: the rural-urban exchange of population, prefecture-to-prefecture movements, and farm-to-farm migrations. To an analysis of prefecture-to-prefecture movements this paper is devoted.
By an analysis of birth place of the population by place of usual residence, much can be learned about the net result of the interchange of population among the prefectures. Of course, these data of the census of 1950 give us no information other than the prefecture of birth, on the movement of persons from one. prefecture to another.
Internal migration in Japan is summerized in the following aspects.
1 There are some centers in prefecture-to-prefecture migrations in Japan. These centers are centrifugal and centripetal ones of this mig-ration from and to ones.
2 These centers consist of Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Hokkaidc etc., on the other hand these ones form circles of migration of Tokyo, Osaka etc..
3 In-migration prefectures are metropolitan areas or centripetal, and centrifugal centers.
4 Out-migration prefectures are Yamanashi, Saga etc, with short distance and Hokuriku district with far distance from centers. The former is pulled to center, and the latter pushed to center by rural exodus.
5 It was found that there are much migration ratios in near prefecture each other, and still much in mutual center.