Geographical Studies and Japan (Paperback)

Introduction; Japanese Perspectives; Part I Historical Geography; Chapter 1 Road Atlases in Early Modern Japan and Britain, Koji Hasegawa; Chapter 2 The Beginnings of Modern Geography in Japan: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the 1910s, Shokyu Minamoto; Part II Economic Geography; Chapter 3 Research into the Location of Business Core Functions in Japan, Toshihiko Aono; Chapter 4 The Transformation of Regional Systems in an Information-Oriented Society, Akinobu Terasaka; Chapter 5 A Survey of Recent Geographical Studies of Manufacturing in Japan, Shigeru Morikawa; Chapter 6 Changes in Mountain Villages and Policies for the Development of Mountain Areas in Japan, Yoshihisa Fujita; Chapter 7 Local Area Economic Fluctuations in Terms of New Job Offers In Northern Kyushu, Japan, Yoshitsuyu Asami; Part III Urban Geography; Chapter 8 Pollution and Neighbourhood Organizations in Ojima, Koto-ku, Tokyo: A Progress Report, Dusan Simko; Chapter 9 Territoriality and Public Part Icipation in the Process of Budget Planning in Narashino City, Gen Ueda; Part IV Theoretical and Physical Geography; Chapter 10 The Fractal Dimensions of Spatial Structures in Central Place Theory, Masayoshi Kikuchi; Chapter 11 Comparative Research on the Hydrological Characteristics of some British and Japanese Drainage Basins, Akihisa Yoshikoshi; Chapter 12 On the Consumption of Space: A Paradigm for Human Geograph, Iwao Kamozawa; partV The Geography; Chapter 13 South Asian Studies in Japan, Masanori Koga; Chapter 14 From the Walled Inner City to the Urban Periphery: Changing Phases of Residential Separation in Damascus, Masanori Naito; British Perspectives; Chapter 15 The Place of Japanese Studies in British Geography, John Sargent; Chapter 16 Making Places, Making People, R.J. Johnston; Chapter 17 Counterurbanization and the urban-rural manufacturing shift, White Paul; Chapter 18 The Challenge of Place Description, Douglas C.D. Pocock; Chapter 19 Whisky, Landscape, History, I. G. Simmons; Chapter 20 Towards a Macro-Spatial Interpretation of Operation Flood, P. J. Atkins; The Field Excursions; Chapter 21 London Docklands Redevelopment, David Hilling; Chapter 22 From Steel to Sport: Structural Change in the Sheffield Economy, H. D. Watts; Chapter 23 Pressures in and on the Peak District National Park, Rod Brown; Chapter 24 Transect across the South Yorkshire Exposed and Concealed Coalfield, Bryan E. Coates; Chapter 25 An Excursion through Durham City, Douglas C.D. Pocock; Chapter 26 Causey Arch and the Industrial Revolution in North East England, P.J. Atkins; Chapter 27 The Beamish Museum, I.G. Simmons;