Geographical Review of Japan
Online ISSN : 2185-1719
Print ISSN : 0016-7444
ISSN-L : 0016-7444
Volume 30, Issue 12
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  • Hisakazu OHARA
    1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1102-1108
    Published: December 01, 1957
    Released on J-STAGE: December 24, 2008
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    It goes without saying that we have to pursue theoretic study of hu-man geography for its own development. The object of theoretic geo-graphy, in this point, is to pursue the basic principles of human geo-graphy. The starting point of theoretic geography is to begin with the problem of human life itself. And the most important basis to control whole human life is, whether active or passive, his own internal sub-jective ground. So one must try to apply it to his real life in order to construct his ideal region of life.
    The following, as the three factors of a man's whole life, will be taken up:
    1. Life idea
    2. Activities of life
    3. Environments of life
    Life idea is the most important central factor in these three items though it is invisible, but what we observe as real phenomena are man's activities of life and his. total environments of life. Then each factor is investigated from an individual case to a general case, and is positively or negatively examined both in its common character and in its original character in every region of life. Each factor, on the other hand, is changeable, but, at the same time, has an unchangeable cha-racter. And each factor as human phenomenon needs to be studied from the three chief points of view: men's social sides, men's economic sides and men's political sides. Of course, the words social, economic and political contain a great variety in each case, so that classification of theoretic geography is to be considered.
    The last important problem is to build up the local community as an ideal region of life. The foregoing factors, in other words, are the con-ditions for this problem. And each local community has its own ori-ginality and universality through human life.
    Theoretic geography started from the deductive method like that, but it must always be improved by more experimental, inductive methods.
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  • A CONSIDERATION OF SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE SETTLEMENTS
    Teruo ISHIMIZU
    1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1108-1118
    Published: December 01, 1957
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  • Tadao YOKOTA
    1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1118-1129
    Published: December 01, 1957
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    The hortculture in Kofu Basin has developed rapidly after the war. In particular, the expansion of peach culture is remarkable. The acreage of peach culture increased as wide as of vineyards, which has recovered from the depression during the war time and surpassed the acreage and the production of before recently. Most of the orchards are the conv-ersion from the prewar mulberry fields on the alluvial fans, but we can not overlook a fact that some paddy-fields in the bottom of the basin are changing into orchards, too.
    The changing processes in land-use are as follows:
    1) The prewar viniculture area. The monoculture of vine is progr-essing intensively. Even farmers who have a small vineyards became to cultivate vines on the most part of their field.
    2) The prewar peach culture area. All the farmers increased their the peach trees and one who have large peach gardens planted vines newly.
    3) The prewar mulberry and rice centered area. The mulberry felds tend to change themselves into peach gardens, and the farmers with large acreages of paddy-fields changed their fields into vineyards, res-erving some of them to support their family.
    The main cause of the development is the change from mulberry to fruit owing to the decline of the sericulture. And moreover, we may add two other reasons: 1) as the result of the land-reformation, the farmers could accumlate capital enough to afford orchards to earn the, cash. 2) the price of rice, which is decided by the government, is far cheaper comparing with the price of fruits produced on the same land.
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  • Tadanori KUWABARA
    1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1129-1142
    Published: December 01, 1957
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  • Tokuji CHIBA
    1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1142-1147
    Published: December 01, 1957
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  • 1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1147-1187,1_1
    Published: December 01, 1957
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  • 1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1166
    Published: 1957
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  • 1957 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1187
    Published: 1957
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