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Noboru OKADA2005 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 1-18
Published: September 25, 2005
Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper aims at clarifying the factors for the process of spatial differentiation of vegetable growing areas in the Jobu Region 70 to 80km northwest of Tokyo.
Major factors for creating spatialy differentiated characteristics of the vegetable growing areas concerned are as follows:
(1) Since the 1970s, negi (long Welsh onion or green onion, normally 50cm or longer) growing areas have changed to yamatoimo (flat-shaped nagaimo, a kind of yam) growing areas, spatially smaller negi growing areas, and vinyl greenhouse vegetable areas in Ojima, Honjo, Fukaya and Okabe. On the other hand, since the 1980s, daikon (big-root radish) growing areas have changed to negi growing areas, and various vegetables growing areas.
(2) In the middle of the 1950s, agricultural study groups were organized for improving cultivation techniques of yamatoimo in Ojima and northern Fukaya. After learning necessary cultivation techniques from these groups, the farmers introduced yamatoimo. Further, they enlarged yamatoimo growing in area and cooperative sales started.
(3) In the 1970s, most vegetables were sold through agricultural cooperatives and their branches in the daikon growing areas of southern Fukaya and eastern Okabe. The shippers, not the growers as before, came to decide kinds of vegetables to be grown and also sowing seasons of them.
(4) In the 1980s, the southern part of Fukaya started to introduce negi planting, not sowing, machines where the soil condition is acceptably soft. The negi farmers there enlarged negi growing area by borrowing other farmers' fields. On the other hand, negi planting machines could not be introduced in northern Honjo and northern Fukaya, where the soil is a little too hard to apply. In these areas, negi farmers having family succesors could borrow financial support from the national and prefectural governments to construct vegetable vinyl greenhouses, and cooperative sales became common thereafter.View full abstractDownload PDF (4900K) -
the case of Samsung Shipbuildings in Geoje City, KoreaYounSub Woo2005 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 19-32
Published: September 25, 2005
Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this study is to investigate the growth of the Korean shipbuilding industry and the reorganizing process of spatial structure in production networks with the development of technology. The results not only could be used in determining a new location or moving internal or external allied firms, but also could help plan a spatial strategy of large shipbuilding firms. The following are the results.
Firstly, since launching into shipbuilding industry from the latter part of the 1970s with political support of government, active investment intention of the firm, and foreign firm's joining, Samsung Shipbuildings grew into a global shipbuilding firm in size. Now Samsung Shipbuildings is improving the quality through resolute structural reform, development of technology, and external cooperation.
Secondly, Samsung Shipbuildings does business with affiliated company, shipbuilding agencies, and cooperation firms on the whole. A characteristics of business relationships is stable, long lasting, and systemic thorough mutual cooperation.
Thirdly, in the spatial characteristics of Samsung manufacturing networks, a spatial arena was a center for companies in Europe or Japan at an early stage, but nowadays the importance of other areas of Asia, including the Gyeongnam province, which is adjacent Samsung Shipbuildings, is greatly increasing. The reason why cooperation firms gather around the mother company is that it brings economy in expenditures including cost of transport and technical innovation through contact.
Fourthly, the spatial structure of Samsung production networks is developing from external dependence into internal solidification, mutual supplement, and mutual cooperation. This change means that relationships between enterprises are developing from dependency or opposition to coexistence and cooperation. It contributes to the establishment of matured industrial culture.
Fifthly, nowadays the central axis of shipbuilding industry is moving from Europe into Asia, and relative importance in Asia is increasing at Samsung Shipbuildings production networks. Therefore, the pan-Yellow Sea shipbuilding industry belt connecting Japan (technology and capital), Korea (equipments and processes), and China (labor power) will strengthen the international competitiveness in shipbuilding industry through mutual supplement.View full abstractDownload PDF (1790K) -
Noritaka YAGASAKI, Taro FUTAMURA2005 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 33-51
Published: September 25, 2005
Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSSoutheast Asian refugees were attracted to Garden City, Kansas beginning in the early 1980s when the low-wage labor demand increased after establishment of corporate meatpacking plants. Local feed grain production expanded substantially due to the application of center-pivot irrigation systems, commercial cattle feeding industry flourished, and large-scale beef packing plants began to process cattle into boxed-beef. This paper attempts to analyze Southeast Asian refugees and their community in the context of expanding local economy and changing local host society. Special attention is paid to the process of resettlement, low-cost housing in mobile home parks, occupational structure, and ethnic landscape. Unlike most Asian immigrants in the United States who, in the face of hostile social environment, applied adaptive strategies to finding housing and employment and protecting the interests of ethnic communities, Southeast Asians in Garden City successfully found economic niche as well as spatial niche with minimal conflict. It was partly due to the powerful economic pull provided by IBP. It was also due to the assistance given by the federal and state government to refugee resettlement. Additionally, local host society also provided Southeast Asian refugees with varied assistance as they were considered inevitable for sustaining the growth of local economy.View full abstractDownload PDF (4585K)
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