I will discusss the population trend and sex selective infanticide
with demographic analyzing system in Tokugawa Japan using the relational
database of historical documents (DANJURO ver.2).
North-eastern Japan has been thought to be a less advanced and
poor region during the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) because of
its population decrease. Also it has ...
(Show more)I will discusss the population trend and sex selective infanticide
with demographic analyzing system in Tokugawa Japan using the relational
database of historical documents (DANJURO ver.2).
North-eastern Japan has been thought to be a less advanced and
poor region during the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) because of
its population decrease. Also it has been believed that infanticide
was a main cause of the population decrease and that poor people
having many children had no choice but to resort to infanticide
in order to survive. Evidence suggests, however, we should change
some of the images of this area.
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