Japanese Population Geographies I

Dr. Yoshitaka Ishikawa is a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He received his D.Litt. in geography from the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, in 1994. He is a leading Japanese population geographer who has contributed to international geography through publishing many books and papers on such research topics as internal/international migration and foreign residents as ethnic minorities.His research activities have also extended to investigating geographical disparities between the Tokyo metropolitan area and the rest of the country. His publications include International migrants in Japan: Contributions in an era of population decline (Trans Pacific Press, 2015) and Ethnic enclaves in contemporary Japan (Springer, 2021). He served on the editorial board of the journal Population, Space and Place (formerly International Journal of Population Geography) for 20 years from 1995. He won the IGU (International Geographical Union) Lauréat d’honneur for the year 2020.

• Internal Migration in the Post-demographic Transition Period.- Internal Retirement Migration in Japan Revisited.- Characteristics of Residential Mobility after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Focusing on Affected Prefectures of the Tohoku Region, Japan.- Spatial-cycle Model Phases and Differential Urbanization of Cities in the Era of National Population Decline: Japanese Cities 1980–2015.- Significance and Possibilities of the New Concept of “Relationship Population” in Japan’s Population Decline Society.