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Although large-scale regional development policies were pursued from the 1960s to rectify the unbalanced use of national land as the population centralized in the three major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, all of these maneuvers failed to
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YO I C H I F U N A B A S H I
JAPA N ’S PO PULAT I ON I M PLO SI ON THE 50 MILLION SHOCK
Japan’s Population Implosion
Yoichi Funabashi Editor
Japan’s Population Implosion The 50 Million Shock
Editor Yoichi Funabashi Asia Pacific Initiative Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-981-10-4982-8 ISBN 978-981-10-4983-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4983-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017951397 © Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights in the English language edition of the book are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Design by Jenny Vong Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore
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Preface
Neither the government nor the National Diet has fully confronted the crisis of Japan’s population problem. While politicians and government officials dawdle, the population has moved into absolute decline. But it is not only politicians and government officials whom we should hold responsible. We, the Japanese people, have also failed to pay sufficient attention to this question. The authors of this volume and I were all very slow to notice the seriousness of this grave problem. It was, in fact, at the time of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that the facts about aging population and regional exhaustion, along with the resultant weakening of Japan’s basic resilience as a country, were brought most clearly to the forefront. When we went to Fukushima Prefecture for fieldwork during the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation (RJIF)’s first
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