@article{oai:osu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001265,
 author = {Kato, Michiya},
 journal = {Annual research bulletin of Osaka Sangyo University},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {P(論文), In the interwar years, government officials of Japan began to express concerns about the absence of any specific unemployment data and were receptive to the recommendation of the International Labour Office that the problem of unemployment should be subject to systematic investigation. Two surveys were conducted by the government, Unemployment Statistical Survey of 1925 and the 1930 Census, but they just revealed relatively low unemployment rates. Contemporary critics knew that the data failed to capture issues such as overemployment and the capacity of many individuals out of work to escape any survey count. There was some official recognition of such deficiencies in the decision from 1929 to initiate monthly returns on the numbers unemployed in each prefecture. Despite the fact that these data were also considered fraught both in method and coverage they nonetheless quickly became regarded as representative of the trend of unemployment in1930s Japan. On the basis of the available evidence, we have drawn attention to the paucity of contemporary data, how it lead to spasmodic attempts at improving the unemployment count and to the sources of monthly data upon which aggregate figures were produced and have been used internationally by labour organization or scholars since which distorted the reality of Japan's interwar unemployment.},
 pages = {77--103},
 title = {Hidden from View ? : The Measurement of Japanese Interwar Unemployment},
 volume = {1},
 year = {2008}
}