Long period and Empirical Research on Labor Migration 1885-1955

本研究旨在通过考察日本乡村与城市之间的迁移过程，阐明日本乡村社会对工业化或现代化的反应。方法是对有关村民迁徙的村治档案进行系统分析。我们找到的档案--喜多方市市政厅档案--完全符合我们的目的。我们把各种书籍和论文复制成缩微胶片，并把它们的信息输入个人电脑。我国居民迁徙活动数据库的建立工作已基本完成。对战后时期（1945- 1949）移民活动的分析也基本完成。我们发现，即使在1946年，农村居民的外流也超过了流入。这些事实表明，即使在第二次世界大战后的混乱时期，日本农户也在实施其再生产战略。这些事实的发现有利于我们提出的本土经济发展概念，使日本工业化的特点本土化。我们还准备分析战前时期。

This research project has intended to clarify how Japanese rural society reacted to the industrialization or the modernization through investigating the migration process between villages and cities. The method was the systematic analysis of the village governing archives concerning migrations of its inhabitants. The archives we found - Kitakata city hall archives - were completely fitted to our purposes. We copied various books and papers in microfilm form, and also have input their information to the personal computer. Our efforts to make date bases of inhabitants' migrating activities have almost finished. The analysis of the migrating activities in post-war period - 1945-49 - were also almost completed. We found that the out-flow of the village inhabitants exceeded in-flow even in 1946. These facts indicate that the Japanese peasant households practiced their reproduction strategies even in the period of disorder such as the years immediately after the Second World War. These facts findings are favorable to the concept of indigenous economic development which we proposed localize the characteristics of Japanese industrialization. We are also ready to analyze the prewar period.