@article{oai:sucra.repo.nii.ac.jp:00017104,
 author = {並河, 永},
 journal = {社会科学論集, The Social Science Review},
 month = {},
 note = {The smallness and largeness in number of Japanese retailers is one of the most referred stereotyped features of them. This fact seems related to the behavior of Japanese low-mobility consumers, sensitive to the freshnees of foods.
We defined the density of food retailers as per capita numbers of food stores, and compared them in 1939, 1960, 1982 and 1997 survey, and also among 47 prefectures. We examined how the pattern of change is consistent with the hypothes appeared in the established studies.
In the high-growth-rate era of Japan, 1950s and 1960s, the movement of population was large, and newly populated area, including Saitama prefecture, clearly had less per capita food retailers. In other words, the prefectures of low population growth, which retained more retailers considering their population, kept the largeness in number of food retailers in average, while retailers in the growing area were large and few even before Japanese suprermarkets learned the operation of perishable foods.
Nowadays, however, food retailers are shrinking in number all over Japan. The close examination of the mutual effects among many factors is left for study in the future., text, application/pdf},
 pages = {113--130},
 title = {日本の飲食料品小売業の零細性とその地域間格差},
 volume = {99・100},
 year = {2000},
 yomi = {ナミカワ, ヒサシ}
}