Infanticide in early modern Japan? Demography, culture, and population growth

Article Abstract:

Migration, instead of infanticide, caused the stagnant population growth in Japan during the eighteenth and the early nineteenth century. Japanese wives were left alone when their husbands migrated from their homes to get better economic returns from work. The frequency of conjugal unions was reduced significantly due to work related migration, which negatively influenced population growth. The multiple components of demography worked together to make growth stagnant. Simplistic explanations based on mortality or fertility fail to explain the phenomenon.

Analysis, Demographic aspects, Infanticide, Migration, Internal, Internal migration, Zero population growth

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State-building and political economy in early-modern Japan

Article Abstract:

Traditional scholarship viewed the political history of Japan as starting from the centralization of authority during the shogunate period. However, this imposes the European state-building paradigm on a non-European culture. It does not take into consideration the role of the local autonomous groups that had the daimyo as leaders. Alternative paradigms have been developed to include not only the political powers of the daimyo, but also the language used describing territorial and political rights in official documents.

Political aspects, Central-local government relations, Shoguns

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Commercial growth and environmental change in early modern Japan: Hachinohe's Wild Boar Famine of 1749

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the forces of environmental change on agricultural management during the 1749 famine in Hachinohe, Japan which resulted in people and wild boar competing for food are discussed.

Agricultural research, Agricultural ecology

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