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In this chapter we look at the spatial distribution of economic activities in China and Japan. Japan has excellent data … features today. For Japan we show how structural shifts in the national economy involved major transformations of the regional … what they imply for our understanding of the role of different cities in the urban hierarchy. For China the approach is …