Main concerns of japanese geographers for christaller's thesis with reference to the cases of other countries

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This paper examines in what contexts Christaller's thesis was introduced into Japanese geography. The main findings are summarized as follows: 1) Central place studies in the narrower sense underwent little development except for several pioneering works by Yoshio Watanabe, so that more or less systematic introduction was rather late after Christaller became well-known; 2) his ideas have been instrumental in studies on functional regions and their hierarchical relationships, while substantial contribution was little in the studies of the tributary area of cities, where frequent references to his name were made; 3) before the mid-sixties location theory research had little to do with central place studies, though the translation of his book was done by a location theorist.
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