日本人口学科体系对中国的启发

What Can We Learn from the Evolution of Population Science in Japan

文章概述了日本人口学科体系的发展历程,指出在这个发展历程中,日本人口学界涌现出经济人口学派、历史人口学派、社会人口学派、地域人口学派、生物人口学派、政治人口学派和数理人口学派等。文章认为,人口科学在国际上表现出国际化、数理化和多元化的特点。日本不仅形成了多种人口学派,而且还重视对国外人口问题的研究,至少有50%以上的日本学者研究的是国际人口问题。而中国的大部分学者则主要侧重于国内的人口问题研究,视野不够开阔,缺乏国际型的思维模式和研究理念。

This paper discusses the evolution of Japan’s population science and several its sub-disciplines,such as demographic economics ,historical demography,social demography,spatial demography,biologic demography,political demography and mathematical demography.Population-related scholars in Japan not only study population issues of Japan,but also pay a great attention to population issues of other countries.At least 50 percent Japanese scholars study international population issues.In contrast,the majority of Chinese scholars focus on China’s domestic population problems,whereas lacking in global perspectives.