Abstract
On the charcoal making industry in Japan, there are researches, especially on the seasons and areas of the production. In order to analyze the regional structure of charcoal making, the relationship between the supply regions and the consuming regions, and the influence of decreased demand on the charcoal making regions were studied especially.
Each prefecture has much increased output of charcoal, depending upon more or less fixed market. In Tohoku district, the character of the central area in the charcoal production has the dependence on the Kanto market. However, in the Shikoku, Chugoku and Kyushu districts, it has dispersive connection with individual and local markets.
According to different production-market relations, the industry made a fast decline after 1953 in Tohoku district, and the slow one in the Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu districts.
In Tohoku district depending on the great consuming market, the influence of the decreased charcoal demand on Iwate Prefecture was extremely characteristic. The influence was more obvious in the outer parts of the region but substantially it was heavier in the central area.
