Japan Population Changes 1935-1940
- Title
- eng Japan Population Changes 1935-1940
- Description
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eng
This map explains population changes across all prefectures in Japan from 1935 to 1940 by portraying a bar graph for each, showing natural increase, migratory change, and the resulting net change. Natural increase refers to population changes as the net result of births and deaths in the prefecture. Migratory change refers to population changes as a result of people migrating to and from the area. Finally, the resulting net change graphs the net changes in population taking into account both natural and migratory changes. The map delineates the Japanese prefectures, and each prefecture is labeled by name as well as with the total population of the prefecture as of the 1940 census. It includes the 4 main islands of Japan (Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, and Hokkaido), though Hokkaido appears as a scaled insert on the map and is not in its true location. There are also a few places on the maps that are labeled with their name but not population, such as Korea, Sado, and Tsushima. The map features the population change bar graph for Okinawa but does not include the island in the area covered. The reliability of the data is included under the key. According to the Department of State Services Office (G.P.O.), under the OSS Research and Analysis, the data has been deemed Reliable and Complete, as denoted by “R-C.”
An overall trend in the data is migration out of rural prefectures and migration into urban prefectures. Though all prefectures experienced natural increase within the time period, most rural prefectures experienced a net decrease in population due to migratory change. In contrast, urban prefectures (Tokyo and Osaka, for example) experienced a large net increase in population. - Creator/agency who created the original map
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US government - OSS Research and Analysis
G.P.O. - Department of State Services Office - Date
- October 4, 1944
- Genre
- eng US Intelligence Map
- Places shown in the map
- eng Japan
- Language
- eng English
- Subject
- eng Population
- Rights
- eng NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
- Contributor
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Alek Pochan
Lucas Shattenmann
Maddy Sriver
Benjamin Garcia
Sara Typrin
Per Johnson
Alejo Enriquez-Lynd
Andra Brown
