A Study on the Formation of Sugar Plantation Towns in Hawaii

Research Project

Project/Area Number	25420684
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Architectural history/Design
Research Institution	Okinawa University
Principal Investigator	ONO Keiko 沖縄大学, 法経学部, 教授 (50369211)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	ANDO Tetsuya 琉球大学, 工学部環境建設工学科, 准教授 (60222783)
Project Period (FY)	2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	ハワイ / 移民 / 糖業 / プランテーション / 太平洋島嶼地域 / 都市史 / プランテーションタウン / 製糖業 / サトウキビ
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The sugar industry underwrote the colonial economy of Japanese mandated Micronesia before World War Two. Beginning in the 1920s, the industry eventually brought 96,000 Japanese migrants to the island region in the 1940s. Prior to that, the Japanese had developed a successful sugar industry in Colonial Taiwan (1895-1945) by establishing the Japanese model of plantation settlements. The origin of Japanese sugar plantation settlements in Colonial Taiwan can be linked to sugar plantation models in Hawaii at the beginning of the twentieth century. This study thus explores physical and social features of sugar plantation settlements across four Hawaiian islands, from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century based on archival sources, historical maps, photographs, literature and interviews with residents who remember life in the sugar plantation towns of Hawaii prior to World War Two.