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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."  

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>

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>