A Geographical Study of the Space Transformation by Technological Innovation in Japan

渔业在1980年代和1990年代初没有经历根本性的技术革新。然而，在邻近海域围网渔业中，由于1980年代以来缺乏工人，1990年代鱼类资源缺乏，以及1997年引入TAC（总限额捕捞）法规，技术创新至关重要，因此一船渔业的现代化可能从1997年开始进行。地方产业的技术创新也改变了产业结构。Yuki纺织工业引入CAD进行图纸设计，从而加强了当地工业的设计功能。新的私人研究机构的增加表明了该行业加速技术创新的意愿。通过对明治-泰正时期蚕业的研究，确定了技术创新与区域变化的关系。自现代化初期以来，技术创新一直是改变产业区域结构的积极动因。由于机动化，商业空间正经历着快速的变化。消费者可以从更大的区域收集信息，现在他们正在前往更远的地方。消费者出行方式在小城市的变化要比大城市快。在当地城市，传统的购物区无法应对机动化，而邮路沿线的新商店吸引了许多顾客。以下田内城为例，与沿海捕鱼区相比，吸引更多游客的购物区更具开放性、功能性和创新性。在许多景观元素被标准化的同时，居民也开始追求地方认同。最近，服务行业的工人越来越多。以东京都市圈为例，商业功能在宏观层面上趋于规范化。另一方面，金融、证券等信息产业趋向于向内城集聚。

Fishery did not experience a radical technological innovation in the 1980s and the early 1990s. In purse seine fishery on adjacent sea, however, the modernization of fishery by one boat will probably proceed from 1997 because the lack of workers since the 1980s, the lack of fish resource in the 1990s and the introduction of TAC (Total Allowance Catching) regulation in 1997 make the technological innovation essential.Technological innovation of local industry also changed industrial structure. Yuki textile industry introduced CAD for drawing design, thus strengthened a design function of the local industry. An increase in new private research institutions manifest the industry's will for accelerating technological innovation. The relation between technological innovation and regional change is identified in the study of silkworm industry in the Meiji-Taisho periods. Technological innovation has been an active agent in changing the industrial regional structure since the early modernization period.Commercial space is experiencing a rapid change because of motorization. Consumers, who can gather information from larger area, are now making trips to farther places. Consumers' trips changed more rapidly in smaller cities than in larger ones. In local cities, traditional shopping districts are unable to cope with motorization, while new shops along mail roads attract many costumers.In Shimoda inner city, for example, the shopping area which attract more visitors are more open, functional, and innovative than fishing area along the sea. While many landscape elements are standardized, local identity are beginning to pursued by the residents.Recently service sectors are gaining more workers. In the Tokyo metropolitan area, for example, the commercial function becomes standardized in a macroscopic level. On the other hand, such information-oriented industry as financial and stock industry tend to be agglomerated in the inner city.