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The Making of Urban Japan

During the twentieth century Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural

country into one of the world’s largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised

countries. While Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the plan-

ning ideas and methods of many other countries, however, Japanese urban planning,

urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed

countries.

Japan’s distinctive patterns of urbanisation are partly a product of the highly devel-

oped urban system, urban traditions and material culture of the pre-modern period,

which remained influential until well after the Pacific War. A second key influence has

been the dominance of central government in urban affairs, and its consistent prioriti-

sation of economic growth over the public welfare or urban quality of life. This bias is

seen both in the preference for large-scale infrastructure projects over local parks or

roads, and in the reluctance to regulate private urban land development activity. André

Sorensen examines Japan’s urban trajectory from the mid-nineteenth century to the

present, paying particular attention to the weak development of Japanese civil society,

local governments, and land development and planning regulations. As Japan enters the

twenty-first century, it is hard not to conclude that city planning has contributed greatly

to the dilemma of “rich Japan, poor Japanese” that is now at the heart of the country’s

current social, economic and demographic problems.

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of Japanese

urbanisation and planning, revealing both the many real successes of Japanese urban

management, and many of its resounding failures. Japan’s distinctiveness makes it an

important case study of urbanisation and its management, and helps to put into per-

spective the major urban and regional planning issues faced by the other developed

countries, as well as sounding a timely warning to the rapidly urbanising countries of

Asia. This book includes up-to-date, original material not otherwise available in English.

André Sorensen is Lecturer in the Department of Urban Engineering at the

University of Tokyo, teaching Comparative Urban Planning studies and Land Use

Planning. Since completing his PhD at the London School of Economics on land

development and urban sprawl in the Tokyo metropolitan area in 1998, he has been

living and working in Japan, trying to understand why Japanese cities and Japanese

urban planning have developed in the way they have.

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series

Editorial Board

J. A. A. Stockwin, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, University of Oxford and Director, Nissan

Institute of Japanese Studies; Teigo Yoshida, formerly Professor of the University of Tokyo; Frank Langdon,

Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia; Alan Rix, Executive Dean,

Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland; Junji Banno, formerly Professor of the University of Tokyo, now

Professor, Chiba University; Leonard Schoppa, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Foreign

Affairs, and Director of the East Asia Center, University of Virginia

Other titles in the series:

The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness

Peter Dale

The Emperor’s Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi

and pre-war Japanese politics

Lesley Connors

A History of Japanese Economic Thought

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

The Establishment of the Japanese

Constitutional System

Junji Banno, translated by J. A. A. Stockwin

Industrial Relations in Japan: The

peripheral workforce

Norma Chalmers

Banking Policy in Japan: American efforts

at reform during the occupation

William M. Tsutsui

Educational Reform in Japan

Leonard Schoppa

How the Japanese Learn to Work (second

edition)

Ronald P. Dore and Mari Sako

Japanese Economic Development: Theory

and practice (second edition)

Penelope Francks

Japan and Protection: The growth of

protectionist sentiment and the Japanese

response

Syed Javed Maswood

The Soil, by Nagatsuka Takashi: A portrait

of rural life in Meiji Japan

Translated and with an introduction by Ann Waswo

Biotechnology in Japan

Malcolm Brock

Britain’s Educational Reform: A

comparison with Japan

Michael Howarth

Language and the Modern State: The

reform of written Japanese

Nanette Twine

Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The

intervention of a tradition

W. Dean Kinzley

Japanese Science Fiction: A view of a

changing society

Robert Matthew

Japanese Numbers Game: The use and

understanding of numbers in modern

Japan

Thomas Crump

Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan

Edited by Roger Goodman and Kirsten Refsing

Technology and Industrial Development in

Pre-war Japan: Mitsubishi Nagasaki

Shipyard, 1884–1934

Yukiko Fukasaku

Japan’s Early Parliaments, 1890–1905:

Structure, issues and trends

Andrew Fraser, R. H. P. Mason and Philip Mitchell

Japan’s Foreign Aid Challenge: Policy

reform and aid leadership

Alan Rix

Emperor Hirohito and Sh¯wa Japan: A

political biography

Stephen S. Large

Japan: Beyond the end of history

David Williams

Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious

practices in an industrialized society

Edited by Jan van Bremen and D. P. Martinez

Understanding Japanese Society (second

edition)

Joy Hendry

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese

Literature: The subversion of modernity

Susan J. Napier

Militarization and Demilitarization in

Contemporary Japan

Glenn D. Hook

Growing a Japanese Science City:

Communication in scientific research

James W. Dearing

Architecture and Authority in Japan

William H. Coaldrake

Women’s Giday¯ and the Japanese Theatre

Tradition

A. Kimi Coaldrake

Democracy in Post-war Japan: Maruyama

Masao and the search for autonomy

Rikki Kersten

Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan:

Patriarchal fictions, patricidal fantasies

Hélène Bowen Raddeker

Japanese-German Business Relations:

Competition and rivalry in the inter-war

period

Akira Kud ô

Japan, Race and Equality: The racial

equality proposal of 1919

Naoko Shimazu

Japan, Internationalism and the UN

Ronald Dore

Life in a Japanese Women’s College:

Learning to be ladylike

Brian J. McVeigh

On The Margins of Japanese Society:

Volunteers and the welfare of the urban

underclass

Carolyn S. Stevens

The Dynamics of Japan’s Relations with

Africa: South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria

Kweku Ampiah

The Right to Life in Japan

Noel Williams

The Nature of the Japanese State:

Rationality and rituality

Brian J. McVeigh

Society and the State in Inter-war Japan

Edited by Elise K. Tipton

Japanese-Soviet/Russian Relations since

1945: A difficult peace

Kimie Hara

Interpreting History in Sino-Japanese

Relations: A case study in political decision

making

Caroline Rose

End¯ Sh¯saku: A literature of

reconciliation

Mark B. Williams

Green Politics in Japan

Lam Peng-Er

The Japanese High School: Silence and

resistance

Shoko Yoneyama

Engineers in Japan and Britain: Education,

training and employment

Kevin McCormick

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

Aurelia George Mulgan

Opposition Politics in Japan: Strategies

under a one-party dominant regime

Stephen Johnson

The Changing Face of Japanese Retail:

Working in a chain store

Louella Matsunaga

Japan and East Asian Regionalism

Edited by S. Javed Maswood

Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the

Japanese presence in America, Asia and

Europe

Edited by Harumi Befu and Sylvie Guichard-Anguis

Japan at Play: The ludic and logic of power

Edited by Joy Hendry and Massimo Raveri

The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and

planning from Edo to the twenty-first

century

André Sorsensen

Public Policy and Economic Competition in

Japan: Change and continuity in

antimonopoly policy, 1973–1995

Michael L. Beeman

Modern Japan: A Social and Political

History

Elise K. Tipton

Men and Masculinities in contemporary

Japan: Dislocating the salaryman doxa

Edited by James E. Roberson and Nobue Suzuki

For Ito Peng,

Lauren Hikari,

and Raphael Makoto

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