Rural settlement on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa prefecture and long-distance commuting cultivation
Rural settlement on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa prefecture and long-distance commuting cultivation
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冲绳县石垣岛农村聚居与远距离通勤耕作
DOI:
10.1007/bf00218582
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发表时间:
1980
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通讯作者:
T. Ukita
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作者:
T. Ukita
The arcurate Nansei (Southwest) Islands, SW between Kyushu and Taiwan, constitu most territory of Japan. Okinawa Prefect the S half of the island chain was under U after World War II, but reverted to Japa The prefecture may further be divided i groups: the Okinawa, the Miyako, and th The Okinawa group consists of Okinaw cent smaller islands. Okinawa Island mak than one-half of the entire prefecture wi the total population of 1,043,000(1975 fectural capital, and several other cities a part of the island, where population dens high. In contrast, the Yaeyama Islands, lo the S in the prefecture, are considerab Although the area occupies approxima prefecture, their population constitutes total. Two larger islands, Ishigaki and Iri smaller islands constitute the island grou will be examined in this study. Ishigaki Island, located at 24 20'N, i latitude to both the Aswan High Dam in tip of Florida in the United States. Its su has an annual average temperature of cipitation reaches 2,097 mm per annum. climatic constraint is the fact that it is su which hit the area several times a year fr to early autumn. Damage to houses and c serious. The houses, therefore, are built w tive walls of some 150-170 cm high, whil ed for protection. Since a considerable am needed for the construction and maintena those building new hou use concrete blocks for wall material. The area of the island is 226.8 km2, which represents 10.1% of the total area of the prefecture. But its popula-tion of 34,657 (1975), is only 3.3% of total Okinawa residents.Change in population is indicated in Tab 1. A fairly stable population, of some 20,000, continued from the first census in 1920 to the immediate pre-WW II years. However, the figure rose steadily in the post-war years, to approximately 28,000, 38,000, and 41,000 in 1950, 1960, and 1965, respectively. The increase may be attributed to several factors: many natives returned home to the island from Taiwan, a former Japanese colony, or from large urban centers in Honshu. At the same time, farmers from other islands came to settle in the N part of the islands as farm land became available as a result of reclamation. In recent years the population of the island has steadily been on the decline, finally dipping below the 35,000 mark in 1975.