@article{oai:sucra.repo.nii.ac.jp:00016860,
 author = {並河, 永},
 journal = {社会科学論集, The Social Science Review},
 month = {},
 note = {In this article we examine how traditions in Japanese food consumption can (or cannot) explain the high density of food stores (the number of food shops per capita in a region) in Japan referring to various statistical sources from 1925 to 1997.
Contrary to a stereotyped view on Japanese household consumption, it is difficult to attribute the high density of food stores to the large number of perishable food stores and high requirements　to freshness. Even in 1930s the portion of perishable foods in the number of stores and in the household consumption was not very large. Shops in various categories, especially sweets shops and bakeries, are as important to realize the high density of food stores in pre-war and postwar Japan, which is unquestionable in itself. Density of retailers as a whole has long been also high, though recently declining sharply, and it has been related to high density of food stores.
Lastly we tried some cross-section OLS estimations, to explain the regional difference in density of food stores. On early post-war data, Engel's coefficients are related to the regional difference of density of food stores in Japan, but in 1990s we observe no more correlations, suggesting every region in Japan nowadays has similar retailing structure with large supermarkets as typical food suppliers., text, application/pdf},
 pages = {23--34},
 title = {食料品の消費習慣と店舗密度},
 volume = {103},
 year = {2001},
 yomi = {ナミカワ, ヒサシ}
}