This study was carried out as a health survey into health state and behavior of Korean residents in an urban Japan-Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto-from August 1 through November 30, 1977.
An attempt was made to analyze how they perceive their socio-medical environments and achieve at Japanese society in the process of their ´living. A further intention of an urban survey was to compare the findings among some socioeconomic variables if there was any relationship between sociocultural changes and their health effect.
Based on the available information and data from the 451 returned questionnaires, the findings, as a whole, tend to support that sociocultural change and the stream of consciousness as expressed in terms of migration and Japanization are associated with an increased acculturation among the Koreans in Japan.
The findings suggest that historical emigration; exposure to unhealthy condition, or features of premigration may have some influences on health state of the first generation ration.
However, the second and third generations were similarity exposed to Japanese formality, behaviors and health state. This finding also support the reliability and validity of the previous study findings that the demographic behavior of Korean population in Japan came to resemble that of Japanese by the environmental factors in Japanese society itself rather than any effect of Korean ethnicity.
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