Japanese Journal of Human Geography
Online ISSN : 1883-4086
Print ISSN : 0018-7216
ISSN-L : 0018-7216
Volume 16, Issue 6
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  • Takeo TANIOKA, Masami FUKUNAGA
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 561-578
    Published: December 20, 1964
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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    There are many subjects to make clear the agrarian system of the ancient Japan. It is still the first problem to reconstitute this old system called Jori in detail. Encouraged by such a motive, the authors have researched into the Jori system of the Iga province which was adjacent to Yamato as the cultural and political center of the ancient Japan. The results obtained are as follows:
    1) One can find the agrarian landscape of the ancient Jori system in the Iga and Nabari basins which constituted the Iga province. This system was executed in the paddy field of the alluvial plain more than 135 meters above the sea level, avoiding the very marshy land. However, it was not continuous by reason of the undulating landform and the direction of the Jori typed land division was not fixed.
    2) In the district where the Jori landscape can be seen, the paddy field is very dominant, usually can raise two crops a year and its productivity is very higher than any other districts.
    3) The authors reconstituted the method of allotment of “Tsubo” according to the Jori system, which belonged to the serial pattern as well as the township in United States. But it is to be regretted that they could not succeed in the complete reconstitution for every case of the ancient counties.
    4) The Jori system of the Iga province is divided into four blocks: the Tsuge valley (ancient Abe-gun), the Hattori valley (ancient Yamada-gun), the Nagata valley (ancient Iga-gun), the Nabari valley (ancient Nabari-gun). The authors consider that the “Jo” in the Jori system was numbered in the same directions as the rivers flowed and the “Ri” in the directions at right angles to the rivers.
    5) In the ancient Iga, the “Kokufu” was also established as the administrative center of the province. It was situated to the eastern quarter of the Ijiro village and its plan followed the Jori system.
    6) There were two castle towns in the feudal times. The plan of the Nabari town followed the ancient Jori, but in the case of Ueno town, one can not find the same fact.
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  • Yasuhiko FUNAHASHI
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 579-596
    Published: December 20, 1964
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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    By means of applying the regional comparative cost analysis, one of the analytical methods in the location studies, for the 1960 situation in which the iron and steel industry of Japan had been put, there theoretically looms out a definite possibility to find out the best location for the forthcoming integrated works which would prove themselves to be advantageous for energy economy.
    In the first place, a standard scale plant capable of efficient operation is to be set out. Such a plant, as a unit, must be carried on at least in the scale of production capacity of two million or more metric tons of crude steel per year, from the point of view of modern technology. Only 12 sites are possible to be found in Japan, satisfying the prerequisit conditions for constructing such a standard plant. The conditions are considerable space of land inexpensibly obtainable, with solid layers to endure heavy mills with blast furnaces, a large amount of unsaline water available, and definit facilities available for large ore carriers.
    On the next step, it is necessary to decide the input and output coeficients of some factors for production, and the prices of transportation from the resources or to the markets and of the factors to be consumed for production at each sites, in order to account the regional differentials of costs between the chosen sites (as shown in Fig.3, 4, 6, and 9).
    The costs to compare regionally are calculated by the procedure, in which the prices of all the selected factors are multiplied along the coefficients (Fig.10). From the result having led like that, we know the best location of the industry at Hofu (in the Chugoku district), or at the reclaimed land by Nagoya, where a new plant has recently constructed in fact. This seems, on the location choice of the industry, to teach us the market orientation caused by the biggest difference on the cost of product transport between the sites in the selected factors.
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  • A Case Study of Mt. Shodai in Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture
    Kousuke KIKUKAWA
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 597-613
    Published: December 20, 1964
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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    The author took the case of the piedmont of Mt. Shodai in Kumamoto Prefecture, and inquired into the formation of the orange growing area, taking lead in the special orchardist who found their way over the villages. Special orange orchardists (61 families) in the piedmont of Mt. Kinbo and in the south of Fukuoka Prefecture have made their way into the one of Mt. Shodai, and they are engaging in orange growing in the orchards 30-35km. or 20-45km. away from their own villages by their cars. These clearing lands for orchards in 1962 were promoted by the two groups, which formed the core of rapid convertion from forests into clear orange orchards, and these orchards have over one ha. in area a family.
    Of all the area of orange orchard in Arao City in 1963, 74ha. (45%) is the ones by the farmers over the other villages, though every of the orchardists runs 0.5-3ha. wide orange orchard in their own villages.
    Out of the various factors which stimulated and promoted orange growing over the villages, there are as following:
    (1) The land is limited in area and its price is high. (2) There are capital money and skilled techniques. (3) Suitable land for orange growing can be obtained easily and at a low cost in the other villages.
    The land under these good conditions the farmers are eager to obtain and have their aggressibly enterprising spirits of building modern orange orchards.
    Clearing land for orchard by the farmer over the villages gives a great impetus to the local farmers. And long established pear orchards have been converting into orange orchards by replanted. The farmers chiefly cultivating rice and barley, came to begin orange growing as an object of the convertion of dry field farming.
    This district, however, is on the suburb of Omuta Industrial City, and consists of many part-time farmers work in their small farm field (average 55a.). And so, the introduction of orange farming is limited.
    To the farmers over the other villages, the local farmers were handicaped by the scattering of orchards owing to the convertion of dry field farming, capital money, and technique.
    As the problem in the future, the connection between special farmers and local farmers growing orange as a side job would be an indispensable condition to foster and promote the producing district of orange growing. On this occasion, the discrepancy of farmers' senses and the differance of managements would be left as a problem in the future in systematization such as marketing-organization.
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  • Usao TSUJITA
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 614-629
    Published: December 20, 1964
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  • Ryujiro Ishida
    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 630-635
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 636-644
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 644-653
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 654-657
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 657-658
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 658-659
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 659
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 659a-660
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 660-661
    Published: December 20, 1964
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    1964 Volume 16 Issue 6 Pages 661
    Published: December 20, 1964
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