Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan
This article introduces the Xavier database, one of the major sources for studying historical populations in Japan. The database consists of 162 years of annual observations for 28,105 individuals living in three villages and one town of the current Fukushima prefecture between 1708 and 1870. We rev...
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| description | This article introduces the Xavier database, one of the major sources for studying historical populations in Japan. The database consists of 162 years of annual observations for 28,105 individuals living in three villages and one town of the current Fukushima prefecture between 1708 and 1870. We review the extensive efforts of the founder of Japanese historical demography, Akira Hayami, and his group in collecting, transcribing, coding, and finally making local population registers into this database for demographic analysis. We discuss the studies that flourished domestically and internationally using the data in the last two decades, followed by the discussion of current and promising development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a10cc77be6842f98766bb9c19d458502022-12-22T04:18:17ZengInternational Instititute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432021-11-0110.51964/hlcs11113Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical JapanSatomi Kurosu0Miyuki Takahashi1Hao Dong2Reitaku UniversityRissho UniversityPeking UniversityThis article introduces the Xavier database, one of the major sources for studying historical populations in Japan. The database consists of 162 years of annual observations for 28,105 individuals living in three villages and one town of the current Fukushima prefecture between 1708 and 1870. We review the extensive efforts of the founder of Japanese historical demography, Akira Hayami, and his group in collecting, transcribing, coding, and finally making local population registers into this database for demographic analysis. We discuss the studies that flourished domestically and internationally using the data in the last two decades, followed by the discussion of current and promising development.https://hlcs.nl/article/view/11113JapanHistorical demographyHousehold registersLongitudinal data |
| spellingShingle | Satomi Kurosu Miyuki Takahashi Hao Dong Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan Historical Life Course Studies Japan Historical demography Household registers Longitudinal data |
| title | Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan |
| title_full | Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan |
| title_fullStr | Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan |
| title_short | Thank You, Akira Hayami! The Xavier Database of Historical Japan |
| title_sort | thank you akira hayami the xavier database of historical japan |
| topic | Japan Historical demography Household registers Longitudinal data |
| url | https://hlcs.nl/article/view/11113 |
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