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Miscellanea Geographica
Volume 23 (2019): Issue 3 (July 2019)
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Telegraph communication networks used by the Japanese pharmaceutical industry in 1901
Takashi Amijima
Takashi Amijima
| Jul 31, 2019
Miscellanea Geographica
Volume 23 (2019): Issue 3 (July 2019)
Thematic Issue: History and space: challenges, methods, applications. Editors: Piotr Werner, Izabela Gołębiowska, Izabela Karsznia
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Published Online:
Jul 31, 2019
Page range:
144 - 151
Received:
Nov 16, 2018
Accepted:
Feb 11, 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0011
Keywords
Industrialization
,
regional formation
,
pharmaceutical industry
,
telegraph code
,
Japan
,
patent medicine
© 2019 Takashi Amijima, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
Figure 1
Study prefecture locations.Source: author’s own illustration.
Figure 2
The production values of medicine in 1919 organized by prefecture.Source: Secretariat statistics division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (author’s own illustration)
Figure 3
The distribution of telegraph stations in 1901 Japan.Source: Naikakufu Tokeikyoku 1902, Statistical Yearbook of the Empire of Japan, 21st. (author’s own illustration).
Figure 4
Advertisement for Kabei Hatae.Source: Goto (1904a) with explanations added by the author.
Figure 5
A page from The Telegraph Codebook of Pharmacies in Japan.Source: The Telegraph Codebook of Pharmacies in Japan, p127 (Fukuoka prefectural library), with explanations added by the author
Figure 6
Locational distribution of pharmacies belonging to the Pharmaceutical Telegraph Communication Alliance (author’s own illustration)
Figure 7
The distribution of big private enterprises’ head offices in 1907 JapanSource: Abe (1984: 44–48), (author’s own illustration)