Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
Online ISSN : 1884-0884
Print ISSN : 0022-135X
ISSN-L : 0022-135X
Volume 69, Issue 5
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  • -Case of the Western Suburb of Tokyo-
    Seiji YAMAGA
    1960 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages 187-199
    Published: December 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    Following the rapid advance of the urbanization in Japan and all over the world in recent years, the studies on urbanization have become vigorous in geography. In the Association of Japanese Geographers, the committee of urbanization studies was set up, and it has been carrying on active discussions and researches on this subject.
    The writer has studied the process by which the city functions, developing toward the urban fringes, incited the urbanization of surburbs, as in the case of the western suburb of Tokyo. There is in the western suburb of Tokyo an upland called Musashino, which used to be rural area. But with the expansion of Tokyo, the city functions, such as the great factories, universities, special hospitals and collective housing lots, advanced into this area.
    Compared with other suburbs of Tokyo, the urbanization of the southern and the western suburbs is more remarkable. But the former have greater industrial functions, while the latter are prominent in the residential functions. The urbanization of the northern and the eastern suburbs fall behind that of the western suburb. The difference of the topographical conditions and the accessibility to the civic center between those areas is responsible for the lag.
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  • Shingo EHARA
    1960 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages 200-208
    Published: December 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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    In the middle Tertiary, two similar orogenic movements have occurred on the western margin of the Pacific, one in New Zealand (Kaikoura Diastrophism), the other in Japan (Fossa Magna Disturbance). In the Miocene times, New Zealand was subjected to the Principal Horizontal Stress coming from the East East South and the Alpine Arc of the Crystalline schist series, the backbone of the Is. was wrenched off near wairau into the two blocks, the North and the South Is. which are separated by the Cook Strait. At that time the volcanoes were erupted in the North Is., which extend to the north far away into the Kermadec and Tonga submarine ridges, whose eastern side is limited by the trench of the same name. The Tonga Kermadec Trench reaches 3, 500 km in length, whose south end comes to the Banks Peninsula of the South Is. The fault whose plane dips west penetrates the bottom of the trench, forming a Deep earthquake zone in the depth of above 300 km. According to Kingma, the zone might have been built up at the time of the Kaikoura Diastrophism.
    In the Oligocene-Miocene times, the outer zone of Southwestern Japan was subjected to the Principal Hrizontal Stress coming from the south, and with the inner zone it was wrenched off at the Fossa Magna into the two blocks, Northeast Honshu and Southeast, which were separated temporarily by a strait connecting the Japan Sea and the Pacific. At that time volcanoes erupted in the strait, which extended to the south far away into the Shichito submarine ridges. The eastern side of the Shichito submarine ridges is limited by the Shichito Trench running northsouth, whose bottom is penetrated by the fault whose plane dips west, and in the depth of above 300 km the fault plane forms a Deep earthquake zone. The fault line runs parallel to the trench but on the way turns the course to the northwest, little before the mouth of the Sagaminada which opens into the Shichito Trench ; and after passing the Fossa Magna and crossing the Japan Sea it reaches the Asiatic continent. The fault may reach about 2, 500 km in length. As in the case of the Kaikoura Diastrophism, in Japan the Deep earthquake zone might have been built up by the Fossa Magna Disturbance. The course of the zone might have been interrupted by the granodiorite batholith which lies in Northeast Honshu occupying the Kitakami and Abukuma mountain land ; in avoiding the great massifs it seems to have taken the present course of the Fossa Magna.
    In the Fossa Magna Disturbance, the Akaishi sphenoid which occupies a member of the outer zone has stood up at a right angle from the former position. So how the Paleo-Akaishi might have been may be recalled to our view by bringing back the sphenoid to the former eastwest trend of the outer zone. In the study of the Paleo-Akaishi, the Kii Peninsula and Shikoku we may notice the outthrusting of several formations from the south toward the Median Line, which increases its saliency with its approach to the east. The outthrusting must have taken place in the Laramide Epoch, prior to both the deposition of the Muro series (Paleogene) of the Kii Peninsula, and the Naharigawa series of Shikoku, and immediately after that of the Izumi sandstone group (Upper Cretaceous).
    In the Shikoku and Kinki districts the Median Line is subjected to the lateral thrust from the north, but it may have been a movement posterior to the Koyasan outthrusting of the Laramide Epoch.
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    1960 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages 209-223
    Published: December 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: February 25, 2010
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    1960 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages 223-226
    Published: December 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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  • [in Japanese]
    1960 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages 227
    Published: December 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: April 23, 2010
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  • [in Japanese]
    1960 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages 228
    Published: December 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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  • [in Japanese]
    1960 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages 229-235
    Published: December 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: November 12, 2009
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