An Analysis of Recent Migration Trends in the Tokyo City Core 3 Wards

Abstract

This paper examined recent trends in in- and out-migration in the 3 core wards of Tokyo, and clarified their contribu-tions to net migration changes in the late 1990s. Data of Tokyo-to Jumin Kihon Daicho Jinko Ido Hokoku revealed that in Chuo and Minato, especially in the former, a rise in in-migration played the major role in increasing net migration in the late 1990s. This tendency was less conspicuous in Chiyoda. When we focused on the situation of Chiyoda at the end of the 1990s and after, however, an increase in in-migration basically contributed to an increase in net migration more than a decrease in out-migration did. It is implied that in the recent Toshin Kaiki, the massive construction of apartment houses in the core of Tokyo- a major socio-economic determinant of the recent increase in net migration-has functioned to attract migrants from outside, rather than to absorb potential out-migrants and sup-press their outmove from the ward. Key Words; Toshin Kaiki, net migration, Tokyo, the late 1990s

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