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SUPPLEMENT TO THE MANUAL
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INSTITUTE OF POPULATION PROBLEMS

MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE
19 6 0

(Activities of the Institute in 1961 and 1962)

December 19 6 2

Institute of Population Problems
Ministry of Health and Welfare
Tokyo, Japan

III. WORKS OF THE INSTITUTE OF POPULATION PROBLEMS

1.

Research Topics for the Fis’al Year 1962.
SELECTED MAJOR TOPICS

1.

Demographic trends in Japan,

in

differential

technical

renovation,

especially trend

fertility.

Employment

2.

problems under

the

recent

especially actual state of supply-demand structure of labor force.
Actual state of population concentration in great cities and internal

3.

migration of population.

Recent trend in population quality, especially that in ‘ human

4.

faculty’.
International trends in population problems, especially those in the

5.

ECAFE Region.

RESEARCH TOPICS FOR EACH SECTION
First Section, First Research Division
1.

All-inclusive analysis of the population problems in Japan.

2.

Population theories.
Reproductive structure of labor force in cities.

3.
(1)

Characteristics of labor market.

(2)

Origin of labor force and its accumulation process.

Second Section First Research Division

1.

Intensification of industrial structure and its effects on employment.
(1)

Actual state of accelerated economic growth as viewed

from

employment.
(2)

Actual ' ate of differential wages and household expenses by

'social classes.
(3)

Actual state of migration and reorganization process of labor

1

force.
2.

Demographic trends in agricultural, mountain and fishing villages.

3.

Historical change in the structure and size of family.

Third Section. First Research Division
Trend in differential fertility in Japan, with special emphasis on

1.

its relation with population migration.
* Human faculty ’.

2.

(1)

Effects of disease and mortality on population activity potential.

(2)

Actual state of low income classes as viewed from the point of
social biology.

Socio-biological functions of population migration.

3.

Fourth Section. First Research Division

1.

Change in population quality.

2.

Actual state of the practice of family planning.
(1)

Practice of family planning and attitudes toward life.

(2)

Actual state of sterility and induced abortion.

Demographic materials on races and ethnic groups.

3.

P1 anning Section. Second Research Division
1.

Basic demographic studies.

(1)

Basic methods of demographic analysis.

(2)

Construction of various kinds of life table (abridged life tables,
working life tables, etc.).

(3)

2.

Regional analysis of population.
Projections of future population.

(1)

Total population by age and sex.

(2)

Labor force by age and sex.

(3)

Regional populations.
Zonal structure in metropolitan area.

3.

*

(f)

Zonal structure centering around Tokyo.

(2)

Zonal structures in great industrial areas other than Tokyo.

2

Internal migration, especially concentration of population in great

4.

cities.
Regularities in population distribution and migration.

(1)

Demographic and economic characteristics of migrants.

(2)

Relationship between population increase and economic development.

5.

(1)

Relationship between demographic and economic factors.

(2)

Labor force as viewed from industrial composition and size of
enterprises.
Problems of regional development as viewed from demographic

6.

aspect.
7.

World population problems.

8.

Other necessary study works.

Documentation Section. Second Research Division
1.

Evaluation and correction of demographic statistics.

2.

Study on treatment and utilization of demographic statistics.

3.

Study on international demographic materials.
Compilation of research materials.

4.

(1)

Compilation of selected demographic statistics.

(2)

Compilation of graphic materials of population and population
maps.

Compilation of bibliography of demography.

(3)

Editing of publications of the Institute (Organ, Annual Reports,

5.

Research Scries, etc.).
6.

Collection of publications, and management of library.

7.

Arrangement of weekly seminar of the Institute.

8.

Information service concerning demographic data and publications.

2.

Outlines of Works Undertaken in the Fiscal Years 1960 and 1961.

A.

Subjects of research in recent fiscal years (excerpt):

1960
a.

:

Demographic trends in Japan, especially recent trends in fertility.

3

Employment problems under the recent technical renovation with

b.

special emphasis on

the changing aspects of employment in

various industries.

c.

Concentration of population in great cities and regional differen­

ces in demographic situation.

Accumulated state of the population pressure in recent Japan.

d.

International

e.

trends in population problems, with emphasis on

those m the ECAFE Region.

:

1961

Demographic trends in Japan, especially recent trends in fertility.

a.

Employment problems under the recent technical renovation with

c.

special emphasis on the changing aspect of the supply-demand

structure of labor force.
Concentration of population in great cities and regional differences

c.

in demographic situation.
d.

Accumulated state of labor force in great cities.

c.

Recent trends in population quality, especially ''human faculty”.

f.

International trends in population problems, with emphasis on
those in the ECAFE Region.
Field surveys:

B.

1960 :

a.

Survey on accumulated state of population pressure.
1.

Survey on households of agriculture and forestry.

2.

Survey on employers on own account of petty industries in

3.

Survey on male employees working at manufacturing establish­

urban areas and their households.

ments whose workers number 30 to 99 persons and their house­
holds.

4.

Survey on unemployed males and their households.

1961 :

a.

Survey on populations in selected urban areas viewed from the

point of their origins.
1962
a.

:
The fourth fertility survey.

3

Main Publications

A

\nnual Reports of the Institute of Population Problems
© Articles for No. 6, 1961

1.

Review of Japan’s Vital Statistics since around the Meiji Restora­
tion.

2.

By Tatsuo HONDA.

Optimum Future Population of Japan
birth rate.

3.

Coefficient of Dependency Burden in the Future Population of

Japan.
4.

An evaluation of the recent

By Toshihiko SHIMAMURA.

By Hidehiko HAMA.

Migration Potential and Actual Migration of Population in Japan.

By Minoru TACH I and Misako OYAMA.

5.

Analysis of Recent Trends of Internal Migration in Japan.

By

Toshio KURODA.
6.

Differential Net Migration by Age and Sex in Prefectures, 19201935 and 1950-1955.

7.

By Masao URDA.

By Minoru

Changes in the Distribution of Births by Prefectures.
MIYAKAWA.

8.

An Analysis of Changes in Mortality Structure.

By Shimako

OGINO.
9.

Age Structure of Male Employees by Industries----- Comparison of

fluctuations for 1950-1955.

By Kazumasa KOBAYASHI.

10.

Family Structure and Consumption Pattern.

11.

Population Trend in a Mechanized Farming Community.

By Yoichi OKAZAKI.

By Shi-

geru HAYASHI.
12.

Cooperation Labor System and Nutrition in Farmer

Population.

By Sumiko UCHINO.

13.

A Demographic Analysis of Higo Clan’s Census Record of Men

5

and Cattle.

By Yuichi MINAKAWA.

14.

Again on the Effects of Contraception Practised by an Industrial

15.

Problems Concerning Population Quality.

Organization.

By Hisao AOKI.
By Nobuo SHINOZAKT.

© Articles for No. 7. 1962
1.

Population Problem of Japan in the 1960’s.

2.

Pursuit of the Question of National

By Tatsuo HONDA.

Vitality:

A preliminary

meditative principle for approaching demographic philosophy.

By

Nobuo SHINOZAKT.
3.

An Estimate of Future Labor Force in Japan:

1960-1970.

By

Hidehiko HAMA.
4.

Changing Age Structure of Employed Males in Japan:

1955-1960.

By Kazumasa KOBAYASHI.
5.

Regional Migration of Male Labor Force: Measurement and some
observations.

By Yoichi OKAZAKI.

By Masao UEDA.

6.

Features of In-migrants by Age and Industry.

7.

Economic Potential of Internal Migration of Population and
Determinant.

Its

By Minoru TACH I and Misako OYAMA.
By Toshio KURODA.

8.

Migration and Fertility.

9.

A Comparison of Standardized Birth. Death and Natural Incerease

Rates of Respective Prefectures in Japan:

1955-1960.

By Kiichi

YAMAGUCHI.
By Hisao AOKI.

10.

On Notified Induced Abortions in Japan.

11.

On a Change in the Pattern of Birth among Farmers: A turn in

12.

Postwar Fall in Fertility at Farm Villages. By Yuichi MINAKAWA.

13.

The Process of Placement of Living-in Employees in Large Cities.

14.

By Minoru MIYAKAWA.
Differential Impediments Caused by Chronic Diseases in

15.

An Observation of the Postwar Out-Migration of Population at

differential birth rates.

of Urban Labor Force.

Fishing Villages.

By Shigeru HAYASHI.

Working

By Shimako OGINO.

By Takayuki INOUE.

6

16.

Some Facts about Dietical Custom of the Lowest Income Workers.

By Sumiko UC1-IINO.
B.

The Journal of Population Problems
(o) Articles for No. 82. March 1961

1.

Regional Distribution of Income and Population (1).

By Minoru

TACHI and Misako OYAMA.
2.

A

Fertility

Analysis

of

Population (3).

Japanese

By Toshio

KURODA.

(o) Articles for No. 83. July 1961

By Shigemi KONO.

1.

Household Projections for Japan. 1960 to 1975.

2.

A Theoretical and Empirical Study on Employment Structure.

By

Yoichi OKAZAKI.

3.

A Somatological and Genealogical Study of the Inhabitants of a
Consanguineous Community in Japan.

By Nobuo SHINOZAKI.

(6) Article for No. 84, Dec. 1961
1.

A Somatological and Genealogical Study of the Inhabitants of a

Consanguineous Community in Japan (2).

By Nobuo SHINOZAKI.

© Article for No. 85, July 1962
1.

Gerhard Mackenroth’s Population Theory (1).

By Yuichi MINA-

KAWA.
© Articles for No. 86. Dec. 1962

1.

Modernization of Agriculture and

Agricultural Population.

By

Shigeru HAYASHI.
2.

Gerhard Mackenroth’s Population Theory (2).
KAWA.

7

By Yuichi MINA-

C.

Research Series

Number
No.

139

Date of Issue

Subject
(April 1,

Oct.

1960

Future Population Estimates by Prefectures,

May

1961

June

1961

Nov.

1961

Nov.

1961

Feb.

1962

Feb.

1962

March

1962

March

1962

April

1962

The 13th Abridged Life Table
1959-March 31. 1960)

No.

140

Japan (Provisional) for 1965 and 1970.
No.

141

Recent Trends of Emigration

from Japan

to Three South American Countries: Bolivia,
Brazil and Paraguay.
No.

142

Regional Structure of Population

in the

Metropolitan Region (1)------ On the Concen­

tric Circle of

Region

Capital

in

Japan:

Area, Population and Population Density
for 1950, and 1960, and Population Growth

Rate for 1950-1960.

No.

143

The 14th Abridged Life Table (April 1,
1960-March 31, 1961).

No.

144

Recent Studies on the Relationship between
Population Growth and Economic Develop­

ment—Professor A. Sauvy’s contribution.—

No.

145

Population Estimates by Sex and Age from

1870’s to 1920.

No. 146

Changes in the Age Structure of Working
Population in Japan.

No.

147

Socioeconomic Characteristics of

Dietetic

Custom among Urban Workers------ Part of

the results of the 1960 field survey on

population pressure-----No.

148

Recent Studies on Employment Projections
in France (1).

No.

149

An Introduction to the Study on Demogra­

phic Change and Economic Growth.

8

No.

150

The 15th Abridged Life Table (April 1,

Aug.

1962

Oct.

1962

Oct.

1962

Dec.

1962

1961-March 31. 1962).

No.

151

Estimates of Future Labor Force Population

in Japan, 1960-1970.
No.

152

Structural Change of Fertility Behavior in
European Population and Overseas Descen­

dants.
No.

153

Latest

Demographic

Statistics,

Vol.

fl[,

International Demographic Statistics. Part 2.
E.

English Research Series
(Publications from Nos. 1 to 44 shown here were listed in

the Manual of the Institute 1960. pp. 38-40, but here they

are rearranged under a new serial numbering.

Old numbers

arc shown in brackets for reference.)

No.

1

Population problem of Japan.

By A. Okasaki. Sep. 1948.

(Extra-No. 1 j
No.

2

Food crisis and birth control.

By A. Okasaki. Sep. 1948.

(Extra-No. 2J
No.

3

Population trends of Japan in Tokugawa Era—Total popula­
tion.

No. 4

By N. Sekiyama. Sep. 1948. (A-No.2(a)J

Population trends of Japan in Tokugawa Era—Some data of

vital statistics.

By N. Sekiyama. Sep. 1948. (A-No.2(b)j

No.

5

Estimation of future population of Japan from 1935 to 2025—

No.

6

The influence of the improvement of death rate to tubercu­

Estimated in 1940—.

By T. Nakagawa. Sep. 1948 (A-No.3j

losis on the future population of Japan.

By T. Shimamura.

(A-NO.4J

No.

7

Estimated population by sex and ages in the inter-census
years, 1916-1938.

By M. Tachi

&

Y. Kubota. Sep. 1948.

(A-No. 5J

No.

8

Demographic situation of population movement in
1920-1937.

Japan,

By M. Tachi, M. Ueda & Y. Kubota. Sep. 1948.

9

CA-No.6]
No.

9

Standardized birth,

and

death,

natural increase

prefectures, 1920. 1925, 1930 and 1935.

rate

by

& M.

By M. Tachi

Ueda. Sep. 1948. CA-No.7^

No. 10

Standardized

birth,

and

death,

natural

increase

rate

rural and urban districts, 1920. 1925. 1930 and 1935.

by

By M.

Tachi & M. Ueda. Sep. 1948. CA-No.8]
No. 11

Standardized birth, death, and natural increase rate of 127

cities in 1935.
No. 12

By NT. Tachi & M. Ueda. Sep. 1948. CA-No.9]

Birth intervals according to birth order—A research from the
result of investigation on fertility surveyed in 1940.

By A.

Okasaki. Sep. 1948. CA-No. 11]
No. 13

An observation on the difference of actual formation of
marriage and its official registration in Japan.

By A. Okasaki.

Sep. 1948. CA-No. 13]
No. 14

On the relation between increase of productive power and

growth of population by districts in Japan, 1925-1935—An
"index number of population pressure" by prefectures.

By

M. Tachi. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 1]
No. 15

Investigation on the differential fertility by marriage ages.

duration of married life, level of education, occupations and

economic ranks of husband and wife—Surveyed in 1940—. By
A. Okasaki. Sep. 1948. CB-No.2]
No. 16

Research on difference in

fertility as occupation of wives

varies—Surveyed in 1943—.

By T. Shimamura. Sep. 1948.

CB-No. 3]
No. 17

Investigation on the fertility of Koreans in Japan—Surveyed
in 1940, about 48,000 couples—By E. Koyama. Sep. 1948.
CB-No. 5]

No. 18

Investigation

on

the differential death rate by economic

ranks—Surveyed in 1940—By T. Nakagawa. Sep. 1948.CB-No. 6J
No. 19

Investigation on the expenses to have new home—Surveyed
in 1940 and 1941—By A. Okasaki. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 8]

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No. 20

Investigation on the regional scope in which

made—Surveyed in

1941—.

By

A.

marriages are

Sep.

Okasaki.

1948.

CB-No. 9]
No. 21

Investigation on the rearing cost of children—.

Report of

the 1st survey in Feb. 1943—. By N. Sekiyama. Sep. 1948.
CB-No. 10(a)]

No. 22

Investigation on the rearing cost of children—2nd survey in

Nov. 1943—.

By T. Honda. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 10(b)]

No. 23

Investigation on the rearing cost of children —On the result

No. 24

'rhe investigation on the actual state of practice of contracep­

of 3rd survey—.

By K. Mikuni. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 10(c)]

tion in Japan—Surveyed in 1947.

By N.

Shinozaki. Sep.

1948. CB-No. 11]
No. 25

Birth place composition of population of 109 cities in 1930.
By M. Tachi & M. Ucda. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 12]

No. 2G

An observation on

the

correlation

between

standardized

birth, death, and natural increase rate and some indices
concerning social mode of life by prefectures, 1920, 1925, 1930
By M. Tachi, M. Ucda & Y. Kubota. Sep. 1948.

and 1935.
CB-No. 13]

No. 27

An observation on

birth, death,

the

correlation

between

standardized

and natural increase rate and some indices

concerning characteristics of cities, 1935.

By M. Tachi, M.

Ucda & Y. Kubota. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 14]
No. 28

Fundamental differences of population phenomena by the
size of communities, 1925, 1930 and 1935.

By M. Tachi &

M. Ucda. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 15]
No. 29

The investigation on mixed blood families of MicroncsianEuropean or other—As the materials of eugenics

from a

viewpoint of physical anthropology—Surveyed in 1941.

By

N. Shinozaki. Sep. 1948. CB-No. 1]

No. 30

Eugenic investigation on the inbreeding families—Surveyed

in 1943.

By N. Yokota & N. Shinozaki. Sep. 1948. CC-No.2]

No. 31

Maternal death in Japan—Analysis of the official statistical
data from 1899 to 1938

No. 32

By N. Kasama. Sep. 1948.

By

A.

Effects of the late war upon the population of Japan.

By

The population of Japan

and

countermeasures.

Okasaki. Aug. 1949.
No. 33

A. Okasaki. Nov. 1949.
No. 34

Fertility of the farming population in Japan.

By A. Okasaki.

Aug. 1951. CA-No.14]

No. 35

White paper on Japanese population.

No. 36

Fertility of salaried men in the urban Area.

Aug. 1951.

By A. Okasaki.

July 1952. CA-N0.I6J
No. 37

Fertility of Japanese women based on results of Popula­

tion Census of 1950.
No. 38

Eugenic study of

marriages:

yama-mura,
Japan.

No. 39

By A

a

Okasaki. July 1952. CA-No. 17]

village

featured

by

consanguineous

A report of survey in 1943 at Narata, NishiMinamikoma-gun.

Yamanashi

Prefecture

in

By N. Shinozaki. June 1955.

An analysis of postwar fertility in Japan—Renewed tabulation

of result of the Fertility Survey of 1952

By '1'. Honda.

Sep. 1956. [A-No.18]

No. 40

Population

problems in postwar Japan—Now

transitional difficulties—.

facing their

Vol. I. By T. Honda. Jan. 1957.

[A-No.20]
No. 41

Population problems in

postwar

transitional difficulties—.

Vol. If. By T. Honda. April 1957.

Japan—Now

facing

their

CA-No. 21]

No. 42

Marital dissolutions by divorce in Japan.

By A. Okasaki.

No. 43

Growth of urban population in

By A.

Japan.

Okasaki.

June 1957.
No. 44

The actual state of spread of birth control in suburbs of

Tokyo—To analyse the conditions of it—.

By N. Shinozaki.

July 1957.
No. 45

Report on sexual life of Japanese.

By N. Shinozaki.

July

1957. CC-No.llJ

No. 46

National

Statement

of

Japan

at

Inaugural

Conference,

Regional Centre for Demographic Research and Training in
Asia and the Far East to be held on November 5—9, 1957

in Bombay, India.
No. 47

No. 48

By M. Tachi. Nov. 1957.

A fertility survey in Japan of 1952. By A. Okasaki. Dec. 1957.
A survey of spread of birth control.

By T. Honda. Dec.

1957.

No. 49

Trends in population growth and economic development in
Japan.

(Presented to the Seminar on "The Problems of

Population Growth in Under-developed Countries and the

Desirability of Family Planning”, held by the Institute of

Development Economics, Karachi, in cooperation with the
Population Council. Inc., New York, 8th to 13th September,
1959, Karachi).
No. 50

By M. Tachi & T. Kuroda. Sep. 1959.

Population trend and economic growth in Japan.

Reprint

of the paper presented to the Round Table on Economic

Development with Special Reference to East Asia of Inter­

national Economic Association, April 1960.

By M. Tachi.

April 1960.
No. 51

Summary of "potential of metropolitan

concentration

of

population from the viewpoint of interrelationship between
regional distribution of income and that of population".

By

M. Tachi. July 1960.

No. 52

Eugenic Protection Law in Japan (Latest Revised Edition).
Aug. 1960.

No. 53

Recent population trends in

Japan.

Paper presented

to

"UN/FAO Regional Census Training Centre for Asia and the
Far East” (September 9, 1958).
No. 54

By M. Tachi. Sep. 1958.

A note of the present situation and future potentialities of

vital

statistics and civil registration procedures of atomic-

bomb sufferers for genetic and radiation studies in Japan.

Paper presented to the "Seminar on Use of Vital and Health

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Statistics for Genetic and Radiation Studies” sponsored by
UN and WHO, September 5 to 9, 1960.

Jcneva. By T.

Kuroda. Sep. 1960.
No. 55

Forecasting

manpower

resources:

force—Some experiences in Japan.

F.

French Research Series

No.

1

Population

and

labor

By M. Tachi. Oct. 1962.

Les mort-nes au Japon dans ces dernieres annees.

By A.

Okasaki. Aug. 1951.

No.

2

La grande industrie ct la population des ouvriers d’usine du

No.

3

Sur les indices de sante.

Japon. By A. Okasaki. 1954.

By A. Okasaki. Nov. 1956.

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