Regional growth in postwar Japan |
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Authors: | Masahisa Fujita Takatoshi Tabuchi |
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Institution: | aInstitute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-01, Japan;bFaculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan |
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Abstract: | We show that a shift from light to heavy industries brought about the fast regional transformation from the Tokyo-Osaka bipolar system to the Pacific industrial belt system, and a shift from heavy to high-tech and service industries induced the second transformation to the Tokyo monopolar system. We also show that the recent development in telecommunications and transportation technologies tend to agglomerate knowledge-intensive activities in the core regions of Japan while dispersing mass-production activities to nonmetropolitan regions and overseas. This partly explains the recent renewed tendency of the increasing income differential between the core and peripheral regions. |
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Keywords: | Japanese city system Regional growth Multinational firms |
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