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Doyen of demography studies in Japan at the University of Tokyo, this collection of Akira Hayami’s writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan. Containing twenty key essays, the volume is divided into five parts: Tokugawa Japan, Demography through Telescope, Demography through Microscope, Family and Household, Afterwards. It begins with Philip II of Spain and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the sixteenth century and concludes with Koji Sugi and the emergence of modern population studies in the twentieth century.

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Author:   Akira Hayami
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Global Oriental Ltd
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   1.100kg
ISBN:  

9781906876098

ISBN 10:   1906876096
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: Foreword by Osamu Saitō: Akira Hayami: a historiographical appraisal; Introduction by Akira Hayami; PRELUDE: Philip II and Toyotomi Hideyoshi; Francisco Xavier and Japan; PART I: Tokugawa Japan; 1. Japan: Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 2. A Great Transformation: Social and Economic Change in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Japan; 3.Japan in the Eighteenth Century: Demography and Economy; 4. Industrial Revolution versus Industrious Revolution; PART II: Demography through Telescope; 5. The Population at the Beginning of the Tokugawa Period － An Introduction to the Historical Demography of Pre-industrial Japan; 6. Population Trends in Tokugawa Japan: 1600-1868; 7. Population Growth in Pre-industrial Japan; 8. Population and Family in Crisis: A Study of Northeastern Japan in the Late Eighteenth Century; 9. Japan in Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji; PART III: Demography through Microscope; 10. The Shūmon aratame-chō: Japan’s Population Registers; 11. Demographic Aspects of a Village in Tokugawa Japan; 12. Class Differences in Marriage and Fertility among Tokugawa Villagers in Mino Province; 13. Labor Migration in a Pre-industrial Society: A study tracing the Life Histories of the Inhabitants of a Village; PART IV: Family and Household; 14. Size of Household in a Japanese County throughout the Tokugawa Era; 15. Regional Diversity in Demographic and Family Patterns in Pre-industrial Japan; 16. Population and Household Dynamics: A Mountainous District in Northern Japan in the Shūmon aratame-chō of Aizu, 1750–1850; PART V: Epilogue; 17. Another Fossa Magna: Proportion Marrying and Age at Marriage in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan; 18. Illegitimacy in Japan; 19. Kōji Sugi and the Emergence of Modern Population Statistics in Japan: the Influence of German Statistics; Sources; Index

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