Toshihiko Hara - An Essay on the Principle of Sustainable Population

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Editor-in-chief

Toshihiko Hara, Sapporo, Japan

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Shinji Anzo, Tokyo, Japan

Hisakazu Kato, Tokyo, Japan

Noriko Tsuya, Tokyo, Japan

Toru Suzuki, Tokyo, Japan

Kohei Wada, Tokyo, Japan

Hisashi Inaba, Tokyo, Japan

Minato Nakazawa, Kobe, Japan

Jim Raymo, Madison, USA

Ryuichi Kaneko, Tokyo, Japan

Satomi Kurosu, Chiba, Japan

Reiko Hayashi, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Kojima, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Inoue, Tokyo, Japan

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I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Tilman Mayer, Prof. Dr. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, Dr. Martin Bujard, Prof. Dr. Hans Bertram, and Prof. Dr. Hans Hoch for our meaningful dialogues on sustainable population development of our societies in Germany in October 2018, which gave me many important additional ideas for this book. I also thank Dr. Ling Sze Nancy Leung for her advices to improve my text as same as my previous work. This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23330173 (Study on the Population and Life Course Dynamics in the First and Second Demographic Transition and Their Future Prospects)/26285128 (Study on the New Population Trends and Life Course Changes based on a Contemporary Re-examination of the Demographic Transition Theory). This is Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Chief researcher: Ryuichi Kaneko, Vice-Director of National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Population Statistics of Japan.