- 著者
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谷 謙二
- 出版者
- 埼玉大学教育学部地理学研究室
- 雑誌
- 埼玉大学教育学部地理学研究報告 = Occasional paper of Department of Geography, Saitama University (ISSN:09132724)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.24, pp.1-26, 2004
This paper analyzes the expansion of Tokyo's commuting zone for the duration encompassing the Second World War and ending during the post-war reconstruction period. This paper will also debate the institutional factors that influenced this expansion. Previous research into the growth of metropolitan Tokyo has focused either on the period following the rapid economic growth of the 1960s, or has focused on the changes that occurred between World War One and World War Two. However, the sheer number of commuting workers increased dramatically between 1930 and 1955. By 1955, the suburbs where over 10% of workers plied their trade in Tokyo, stretched out in a 50 km radius from the capital...