THE NEW GEOGRAPHY
Online ISSN : 1884-7072
Print ISSN : 0559-8362
ISSN-L : 0559-8362
Volume 21, Issue 1
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  • Makoto Okada
    1973 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 1-6
    Published: June 25, 1973
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2010
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  • Seikichi AJSAWA
    1973 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 7-25
    Published: June 25, 1973
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2010
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    Chiburi, one of the Okinoshimas, covers about 13km2, and lies some 40km north of the Shimane Peninsula. This small island is lived in by 1, 214 people (1970), the inhabitants shows dden decrease since 1955 (2138 people), and the percentage of old age people has remarkably increased.
    In four villages among seven villages in all on the island dependent on agriculture and fishery inhabitants decreased between 1965 and 1970. It is cauesd by emigration. Young people left their villages for new jobs and old age people women remain to support their farms, while the villages have lost fishing labourers. therefore, farming is the principal occupation today, but it is not industrialized. In the farming as a principal occupation, in general, products are produced in a commercial basis. However, products of these four villages are mainly selfsufficient and cultivated for poor cash income. The writer calls this type poor agriculture as principal occupation the specialized farming of the depopulated are.
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  • Shichiro YAMASHITA
    1973 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 26-33
    Published: June 25, 1973
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2010
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    The writer shows in this paper the status of fishing villages on a small island, Chiburi, of the Okinoshimas. The island depends on the poor fishing income without help of the law of the development for the isolated islands because of the location not far from the mainland.
    Recently the fishing cooperation of fishing villages on the island are promoting their unification. However, fishing villages on Chiburi are not welcomed because of their poor fishing income.
    In spite of such conditions, the fishing ground of this small island begins to emergence as an important area. The coastal fishing of the main land is damaged by marine pollution. On the other hand, the fishing ground of the Okinoshimas does not polluted. In addition their fishery markets, Kyoto-Osaka areas, are not so far from the Okinoshimas. Therefore, the fishing villages on the small island are urged to refrom their management and technology.
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  • Ko Toriumi
    1973 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 34-48
    Published: June 25, 1973
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2010
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  • 1973 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 49-58
    Published: June 25, 1973
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2010
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