INTERNAL MIGRATION IN POSTWAR JAPAN

Science, technology and society in postwar Japan

SHIGERU NAKAYAMA, Science, technology and society in postwar Japan, Japanese Studies Series, London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1991, pp. xv, 259, £45.00 (0-7103-0428-5). Shigeru Nakayama's new book is a welcome addition to the literature available in English on Japanese science and technology. As the title suggests, the writer, a distinguished historian of science, has set himself ...

Law, Culture, and Conflict: Dispute Resolution in Postwar Japan

Major Causes of the Rapid Longevity Extension in Postwar Japan.

Was Postwar Suburbanization “white Flight”? Evidence from the Black Migration∗

Residential segregation by jurisdiction generates disparities in public services and education. The distinctive American pattern—in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs—was enhanced by a large black migration from the rural South. I show that whites responded to this black influx by leaving cities and rule out an indirect effect on housing prices as a sole cause. I instrument for c...

Internal Migration in India

Migration is an equilibrium process which reduces regional disparities at different stages of development and a process which is as old as human civilization. The rate of internal migration in the country has declined upto 1991. However, the figures of 2001 census reveal a reversal in this trend. The increase in the migration rate during 1990s is often viewed as a product of the forces unleashe...