...John Creighton Campbell Shrinking Population Economics: Lessons from Japan . By Akihito Matsutani . Tokyo : International House of Japan , 2006 . xiv , 200 pp. ¥1429 (paper). Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Ageing...

...S. Chandrasekhar Population in Perspective: A Study of Population Crisis in India in the Context of New Social Horizons . By Gyan Chand . New Delhi : Orient Longman , 1972 . xi, 380 pp. Tables, Index. $7.00. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Missouri). Prospects...

...Mark Perlman Asia's Population Problems, With a Discussion of Population and Immigration in Australia . Edited by S. Chandrasekhar . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1967 . 311 pp. Tables, Notes, Bibliographies, Appendices, List of Contributors, Index of Names, Index of Subjects. $8.50...

...Leo Orleans The Population of Asia and the Far East, 1950–1980. Future Population Estimates by Sex and Age. Report IV . New York : United Nations Publications, Department of Economic and Social Affairs , 1959 . Population Studies No. 31. viii , 110 . Map, Appendix. $1.50 (paper...

...Robert W. Hefner Children of the Colonial State: Population Growth and Economic Development in Java, 1795–1880 . By Peter Boomgaard . Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam Monographs 1. Amsterdam : Free University Press . 1989 . x, 247 Dfl 49.50. Upland Farming on Java, Indonesia...

...James A. Hafner Population Research in Thailand, a review and bibliography . A joint publication of the East-West Population Institute, East-West Center and the Institute of Population Studies, Chulalongkom University. Honolulu : East-West Center , July 1973 . ii, 123 pp. The Rural...

...Joseph J. Spengler Colonial Development and Population in Taiwan . By George W. Barclay . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1954 . xviii, 274 . Bibliography, Index. $5.00. A Report on Taiwan's Population to the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction . By George W...

...Joseph J. Spengler Population Growth In Malaya . By T. E. Smith . New York : Royal Institute Of International Affairs , 1952 . viii, 126 . Index. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 BOOK REVIEWS 441 Population Growth In Malaya. By T. E. SMITH. New...

...Gavin W. Jones The Population of Borneo: A Study of the Peoples of Sarawak, Sabah, and Brunei . By L. W. Jones . London : The Athlone Press , 1966 . 213 pp. Maps, Tables, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. 42s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 182...

...Leo E. Rose Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Les Gurungs: une Population Himalayenne du Nepal . By Bernard Pignède . Paris : Mouton & Co. , 1966 . 414 pp. Photographs, Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index, n.p. BOOK REVIEWS reforms, this last...

...H. D. Fong An economic survey of the Pacific area. Part I: Population and land utilization . By Karl J. Pelzer . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1941 [1942]. xv , 215 p. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 BOOK REVIEWS 215 magazine...

... practiced in some regions than in others. But they have not agreed on why. Was it the last resort of the desperate poor or the coldly rational strategy of the upwardly mobile? Through virtuosic statistical analysis of population registers and a careful reading of an array of primary sources, including...

...F. W. Poos The Population of Japan . By Irene B. Taeuber . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1958 . xviii , 461 . Tables, Charts, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 394 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Kyo Machiko...

...Alastair Morrison Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 Population and Settlement in Sarawak . By Lee Yong Leng . Singapore : Asia Pacific Press , 1970 . xv, 257 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $7.75. (The Cellar Book Shop, Detroit.) 460...

...Joseph W. Ellison The myth of open spaces: Australian, British and world trends of population and migration . By W. D. Forsyth . Melbourne and London : Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press , 1942 . xviii, 226 p. 17/6. Copyright © The Association...

..., increasing standards of living, and the displacement of traditional social organization. Most of the data for the “impact” approach have been drawn from cases where the greatest contrasts occur–the most rural elements of the population caught up in large extractive industries or repetitive machine operations...

...Vance S. Elliott Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 Population and World Politics . Ed. Philip M. Hauser . Glencoe, Ill. : The Free Press , 1958 . 297. Notes, Index. $6.00. BOOK REVIEWS Population and World Politics. Ed. PHILIP M. growth as an independent...

...William Petersen Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries: A Case Study of India's Prospects . By Ansley J. Coale and Edgar M. Hoover . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1958 . xxi, 389 . $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Richard D. Lambert Population and Planned Parenthood in India . By S. Chandrasekhar . London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd. , 1955 . Dist. by Macmillan. xii, 108 . Bibliography, Appendices, Index. $2.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 160 JOURNAL...

...N. V. Sovani World Population and Resources: A Report by PEP . Fair Lawn , N. J. : Essential Books , 1956 . xxxvii, 339 . Appendices. $4.80. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 284 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to enrich his account with more...