THE REGIONAL DIVISION IN JAPAN FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE DEVEOPMENT OF TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION

Abstract

A human being has been endeavoring to enlarge the living space and to shorten the time of correspondence. As a means to achieve this purpose we have communication, which always arises at a certain place, alternates and gradually shortens the time of correpondence to zero. In other words, we are accelerating the alternation between areas of human groups and changing the form and function of the construction of each area. And we can see differences both in the alternating and arising of communication according to the areas. Now in this study, we are going to divide Japan into areas, 278 planet cities which are municipalized, as model ones, according to the arising of telephone communication. Concerning the way of study we count out quantitative factors such as population, amount of enterprising, number of workers in the second class industry as well as those of the third class and the proceeds of shops. In order to vanish the influence we made a function as follows: X0=-1.028+0.091X1+0.0128X2-0.064X3-0.049X4+0.145X5+ε' And we also tried the same thing for the qualitative factors such as dwelling planet cities, hotspring cities and important port cities, using the statistical way of measuring. Finally we have divided Japan into 13 areas, from which we have tried to reduce influence caused as mentioned above and have found that the following 13 areas still have their own powers. 1. Hokkaido area ……………………………0.003 2. Tohoku area ……………………………0.019 3. Northern Kanto area …………………-0.072 4. Eastern Tokai area ……………………0.042 5. Mid11e land of Japan ……………………0.054 6. Middle back side of Japan ……………0.036 7. Chukyo area ………………………………0.049 8. Kinki area ………………………………0.105 9. Sanin area ………………………………-0.067 10. Sanyo area ………………………………0.015 11. Shikoku area ……………………………-0.066 12. Northern Kyushu area ………………0.022 13. Southern Kyusyu area ………………-0.183 It shows that Kinki area becomes the center, Tokai and Hokuriku higher than average in the power of arising of communication; the power is gradually reducing to below average, as if goes on toward the southern part of Japan, such as Sanyo, Shikoku and Kyushu. In other words the eastern part of Japan is high and the western and southern part low. It means that the middle of Japan is regarded as an advanced area, and the south-western part the last one, and the north-eastern part the middle area regarding of telephone-communication.