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Volume 38, Issue 2
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  • Development and Formation of Truck Farming Region
    A Case Study of Hokuso Plateau, Chiba Prefecture
    Yoshio MURANO
    1990 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 1-22
    Published: September 25, 1990
    Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5996/newgeo.38.2_1
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    This is research on locational conditions of truck farming region around the northern upland fields in Chiba Prefecture. The results are as follows.
    1. Since 1970 Hokuso Plateau or Daichi has become a truck farming region whose main products are watermelon and carrots, and it also produces taroes, burdocks, tomatoes, radishes, ginger, etc. A cropping system was established. In the field of open-air cultivation, the main products are watermelons and carrots. In the field of horticulture, the mainproducts are half-forced watermelons and restrained tomatoes.
    2. Farm management styles are divided into three parts: (1) hoticulture facilities and open-air culture, (2) full-time farmers who mainly grow vegetables, and (3) part-time farmers. The stablest type is the first one.
    3. There are many kind of marketing systems. According to development of truck farming, reorganizing of marketing systems is progressing; farmers or merchants→their own cooperative bodies→coperative sale by agricultural cooperation.
    4. Five factors of formation of truck farming region are indicated: (1) Improvement of technologies of watermelon culture, (2) development of agricultural materials, (3) improvement of irrigation equipments, (4) improvement of shipment location, (5) development of traffic and agricultural environment.
    5. In order to cope with the competition among producing districts, forcing culture of watermelon, advancement of consumption, and countermeasure against the entrance of farm products from Hokuriku and Tohoku Districts into Tokyo, shipment associations have tried many kind of countermeasure. They attempted shipment to distant areas, having cooperation with other markets, and making sales contacts with supermarket stores through markets.
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  • Character of Kawasaki Coastal Industrial District
    Atsuhiko TAKEUCHI
    1990 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 23-36
    Published: September 25, 1990
    Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5996/newgeo.38.2_23
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    Located adjacent to Tokyo, the Kawasaki Coastal Industrial District, has a number of massive steel and petrochemical factories accumulated on reclaimed land and forms an industrial district characterized by Japan's largest heavy chemical industry. with a number of factories being connected by pipe line to the Ethylene Center at the core, this district has been characterized as a typical “Konbinat” where production activities are integrally carried out. It has also been regarded as a nucleus of the metropolitan industrial region centering about Tokyo.
    However, investigations made of the industrial activities show no linkage indispensable for the operation of the factories connected by pipe line. Taking the system of the petrochemical industries surrounding the Ethylene Center, there is no integral organization nor one single control system observed, and the factories are vigorously competing with each other. This industrial district is formed by independently participating factories of enterprises belonging to different capital groups, and the linkage between these factories is weak. Therefore, it is incorrect to regard this district as a “konbinat”. Also, the Kawasaki Coastal Industial District functions only as a terminal for the supply of materials to the Metropolitan Industrial Region centering around Tokyo, with the coastal location as a common condition and is, therefore, not the nucleus of the region.
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  • A Methodological Study on Geographic-Photography as Teaching matelials
    Minoru ISHI, Kiyoshi TERAMOTO
    1990 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 37-43
    Published: September 25, 1990
    Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5996/newgeo.38.2_37
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  • A Study on Teaching Method of Landform of Japan in Elementary School
    Koh TORIUMI
    1990 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 44-50
    Published: September 25, 1990
    Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5996/newgeo.38.2_44
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