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Information and Emigrants: Interprefectural Differences of Japanese Emigration to the Pacific Northwest, 1880–1915

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Yuzo Murayama
Yuzo Murayama
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The author is Associate Professor, Kansai University of Foreign Studies, 16-1 Kitakatahokocho, Hirakata-shi, Osaka 573, Japan.
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Abstract

This article examines the determinants of interprefectural patterns of Japanese emigration to the U.S. Pacific Northwest, using a multiple regression analysis. In estimating the regression equations, new proxies are introduced for the “family- and-friends” effect that are free of the statistical problems common in previous studies on long-distance migration. The result shows that the information networks that developed between pioneer immigrants and their home districts played a central role in shaping emigration patterns. The lack of an alternative means of obtaining reliable information about conditions in the United States appears to be responsible.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 125 - 147
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1991

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