FAMILY, MIGRATION, AND INDUSTRIALIZATION IN JAPAN.

The article presents information on industrialization, urbanization, migration, and economic transition in Japan during 1920-1940. In 1920, nearly 49% of Japan's men were in agriculture, forestry and fishing, and 42% in industry, trade and transportation. Economic transformation resulted in rapid urbanization. In 1920, 8% of the total population was in the six great cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, which increased to 34% in 1940. Regarding economic transition in Japan, there was a direct transition from a subsistence agrarian economy to an industrial urban economy. Also, the Japanese migrated to maintain the agricultural population.