title: [Trend analysis for interprefectural migration in Japan, 1954-1993].
abstract: "In this paper, our main aim is to examine long-term trends of Japanese interprefectural migration after the War by using a Markov migration model.... We observed dependence of in- and out-migration on the size of populations by prefecture.... Major findings based on the time-series observation of stationary distributions by year are as follows: First from [the 1950s] to 1970 migrants tended to concentrate [on] densely populated industrialized prefectures (Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi), but after that during [the 1970s] populations have redistributed to provincial prefectures. Reconcentration of population to [the] Tokyo area again occurred around [the mid-1980s, but] it ceased at the beginning of the [1990s] in accordance with economic recession.... It can be concluded that [the] recent Japanese interprefectural migration system has lost its potential power to redistribute populations."  (SUMMARY IN ENG)
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D007564:Japan; D011153:Population; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Destination--determinants; Developed Countries; Eastern Asia; Economic Conditions; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; Japan; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Migration, Internal; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Size; Spatial Distribution--determinants