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*''Born: 1929''
*''Japanese'': 速水融 ''(Hayami Akira)''
Hayami Akira is a historian of [[Edo period]] demography. Associated with the [[Nichibunken|International Research Center for Japanese Studies]] (aka Nichibunken), he is perhaps best known for his arguments regarding Japan's early modern "industrious revolution."
Through research on religious registers known as ''[[shumon aratame|shûmon aratame-chô]]'' and other sources, Hayami pioneered a number of new perspectives on early modern Japanese demographic history. One of his key arguments was to see economic development in Edo period Japan as an "industrious revolution" - while Japan did not develop steam power and certain other industrial technologies as Europe did at that time, an intensification of labor, agricultural techniques and land use, and other developments allowed Japan to see considerable development of a pre-industrial sort which some have called proto-modernization.<ref>Hayami Akira, Population, ''Family, and Society in Pre-Modern Japan'', Leiden: Global Oriental (2009).</ref>
Along with others, Hayami also argued that conscious efforts at population control were practiced, at least in some regions of Japan - that [[infanticide]] was not practiced out of desperation but out of a more intentional and standardized custom of maintaining manageable families.<ref>Luke Roberts, ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 62.</ref>
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==Selected Publications==
*L.L. Cornell and Akira Hayami, "The Shumon Aratame Cho: Japan's Population Registers," ''Journal of Family History'' 11:4 (1986), 311-328.
*Hayami Akira, Saitô Osamu, and [[Ronald Toby]] (eds.), ''The Economic History of Japan:1600-1990: Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859'', Oxford University Press, 2004.
*Hayami Akira, ''Population, Family, and Society in Pre-Modern Japan'', Leiden: Global Oriental (2009).
==References==
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[[Category:Historians]]
*''Japanese'': 速水融 ''(Hayami Akira)''
Hayami Akira is a historian of [[Edo period]] demography. Associated with the [[Nichibunken|International Research Center for Japanese Studies]] (aka Nichibunken), he is perhaps best known for his arguments regarding Japan's early modern "industrious revolution."
Through research on religious registers known as ''[[shumon aratame|shûmon aratame-chô]]'' and other sources, Hayami pioneered a number of new perspectives on early modern Japanese demographic history. One of his key arguments was to see economic development in Edo period Japan as an "industrious revolution" - while Japan did not develop steam power and certain other industrial technologies as Europe did at that time, an intensification of labor, agricultural techniques and land use, and other developments allowed Japan to see considerable development of a pre-industrial sort which some have called proto-modernization.<ref>Hayami Akira, Population, ''Family, and Society in Pre-Modern Japan'', Leiden: Global Oriental (2009).</ref>
Along with others, Hayami also argued that conscious efforts at population control were practiced, at least in some regions of Japan - that [[infanticide]] was not practiced out of desperation but out of a more intentional and standardized custom of maintaining manageable families.<ref>Luke Roberts, ''Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa'', Cambridge University Press (1998), 62.</ref>
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==Selected Publications==
*L.L. Cornell and Akira Hayami, "The Shumon Aratame Cho: Japan's Population Registers," ''Journal of Family History'' 11:4 (1986), 311-328.
*Hayami Akira, Saitô Osamu, and [[Ronald Toby]] (eds.), ''The Economic History of Japan:1600-1990: Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859'', Oxford University Press, 2004.
*Hayami Akira, ''Population, Family, and Society in Pre-Modern Japan'', Leiden: Global Oriental (2009).
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Historians]]