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Volume 36, Issue 6
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A case study of waribashi making region, Yoshino Town, Nara PrefectureKumie MATSUI1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 481-500
Published: December 28, 1984
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSEffects of the oil shock in 1973 which revealed the vulnerability of modern industry in Japan, sparked a reevaluation of‘jiba sangyo’(local industries), which have been shaped by the local capital and labor markets as well as by resources and local traditions in technology.
The study of medium- and small- industries which agglomerate in local areas has been one of the main themes in industial geography since pre-war times. But recently it has been pointed out that most of the existing approaches have been dealing only with industrial systems in themselves and have not been concerned with regional contexts and locative surroundings.
This paper examines the formative process of a local industrial region, referring to the preceding industry and the dispersal routes of a new technique.
The area of investigation is located at the junction of the Yoshino and Takami Rivers in Nara prefecture. The major economic activity in this area had been the production of a traditional Japanese handmade paper from the Edo Period until World War II times. During post-war times the introduction of the technique for making waribashi (splittable chopsticks) made of sugi (Japanese ceder) from Shimoichi Town, which is situated on the north bank downstream along the Yoshino River, gave the first impulse to change to a new industrial region from the traditional Japanese paper making.
Those who went to master the technique of waribashi and brought back to their home area the knowledge and information of this new industry contributed to the change of local economic activity. After that people who did not have special craft techniques could easily engage in waribashi production because an electric machine was invented to ease production. This invention further encouraged the use of hinoki (Japanese cypress) in addition to sugi and the production of various types of waribashi.
From 1960 to 1970, the level of waribashi production in this region stabilized, but nowadays some important problems for the future remain. For example, because factories which are situated at small sites on slopes will not be able to extend their activities, most young people are not attracted to succeed to their parents' waribashi production businesses.
In the face of these problems, the main industrial core is transferring to the flatter and broader areas where factories located later. Hereafter those who are engaged in mass-production of waribashi made of hinoki will hold the key to the continuance and development of this local industrial region.View full abstractDownload PDF (4538K) -
Toshifumi OHKITA1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 501-515
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Terutoshi ISHIHARA1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 516-526
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A Case of Kyoto CityYoshishige MASUMORI1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 527-543
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Takemitsu WAKITA1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 544-563
Published: December 28, 1984
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn this study, we clarified the following points.
(1) Kagoshima City has a population of about five hundred thousand. Its regional characteristics, briefly described, are-the warm and rainy climate, the“Shirasu” Plateau, ashfalls of Sakurajima volcano, a large influx of population; Nishi Station has become the center of traffic. Both oshimatsumugi (pongee) and shochu (an alcoholic drink) are the typical local industries, and the city's wholesale trade occupies the largest position in the Southern Kuyshu District.
(2) We analyzed the formative factors of land values in urban and non-urban land use statically and dynamically. By this, we clarified the relation between land values and accessibility from the station or land productivity. Thus we made model formulas about their relations.
(3) The city center with the highest land price moved to Tenmonkan St. from the front of Kagoshima Station with the traffic improvements and the new residential developments in front of inland. A secondary central place (subcenter shopping streets) is developing in front of Nishi Station which has become the transportation gateway, but the land prices there are now about half of the city center.
(4) We made model formulas of the land prices and the proportions of land utilization in the shopping streets, And then tried to analyze the land prices and the proportions of different types of stores. Moreover, we tried to calculate the locational competitive index of the major commercial functions. We also made model formulas of the relation between the flow of pedestrian traffic and land prices, and the number of visitors of the city and the trend of the highest land values. Thus, we could grasp the formation mechanism of land prices.
(5) We analyzed quantitatively the disparity between economic rents (net income of land) and land prices of representative industries (stores, inns, hotels & factories) in the city. From this analysis, we examined the various locational conditions in detail.
(6) We believe that this study will provide important information for comparison with many other cities in the future.
Note: In this paper, “land value”means the land values assessed by fixed property tax and capitalized land values, while“land price”means the actual selling price.View full abstractDownload PDF (5992K) -
1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 564-570
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[in Japanese]1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 570-571
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[in Japanese]1984 Volume 36 Issue 6 Pages 571-572
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