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2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Modern Historical Geographies about Spatial Organization Processes of Nation State and Societies in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13308002
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Human geography
Research InstitutionChiba University (2003-2004)
University of Toyama (2001-2002)

Principal Investigator

NAKANISHI Ryotaro  Chiba Univ., Faculty of Education, Assoc.Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (70202215)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) YAMANE Hiroshi  Toyama Univ., Faculty of Education, Assoc.Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (30222376)
OKAJIMA Ken  Kokushikan Univ., Faculty of Letters, Assoc.Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (80242791)
TSUBAKI Machiko  Tokyo Gakugei Univ., Faculty of Education, Assoc.Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (80236934)
SEKIDO Akiko  Gunma Univ., Faculty of Education, Assoc.Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (50206629)
KONO Keiichi  Tokiwa Univ., College of Human Science, Assoc.Professor, 人間科学部, 助教授 (70211894)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2004
Keywordsspatial organization / historical geography / modernization / Japanese territory / colonial region / nation / improved agricultural technique / merchant activity
Research Abstract

Historical geography of modern Japan has appeared as an independent study area in Japanese academic geography since the late 1980s. We tentatively define the period from the Meiji Restoration in 1968 to Japanese defeat in the Second World War in 1945 as the modern period. Since we have not lived experience of modern Japan, we use not the contemporary geographical approach but the historical-geographical approach to investigate it. Japanese territory in modern times had temporarily extended to the colonial regions of Korea, Taiwan, ‘South Manchuria' (southern area of Northeast China), and Karafuto (southern Sakhalin) as well as the present territory. We intended to explain geographically the characteristics of spatial organization processes of nation state and societies in modern Japan as the maximum time-spatial entity.
Main subjects of the research are as follows : 1.Theoretical approaches to modern historical geographies 2.Diffusion process of improved agricultural techniques 3.Symbolic landscape in frontier regions 4.Modernization of hot spring facilities in a local town 5.Activity of local financier in the sericulture region 6.Origins of commutation 7.Development of canal projects in city planning 8.Transformation of a local central place through merchant activities 9.Biography formation and transformation of a port city 10.Development of the fishery processing industry in Korea under Japanese rule 11.Coal mining industry and colonization program in Karafuto 12.Staple goods on exports and imports in ‘South Manchuria'.
As the results of those studies, we reached the following conclusion. Any modernized region had not naturally formed but was structurally and socially produced. In the Japanese modernization process, the three subjects of a nation, society and human agency had interacted with one another and co-contributed to formation of region.

  • Research Products

    (27 results)

All 2005 2004 2003 2002

All Journal Article (25 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 明治期の茨城県における牛馬耕導入・普及をめぐる官民の動向2005

    • Author(s)
      中西僚太郎
    • Journal Title

      千葉大学教育学部地理学研究報告 16号

      Pages: 19-29

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Origins of Commutation in Japan2005

    • Author(s)
      MIKI Masafumi
    • Journal Title

      Geographical Review of Japan 78-5

      Pages: 1-18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 1930年代の樺太における石炭業2005

    • Author(s)
      三木理史
    • Journal Title

      アジア経済 46巻5号

      Pages: 2-18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Activities of the Government and private citizens on the introduction of plowing with draft animals in Ibaraki Prefecture in Meiji Era.2005

    • Author(s)
      NAKANISHI Ryotaro
    • Journal Title

      Geographical Report of Department of Geography(Faculty of Education, Chiba University) 16

      Pages: 19-29

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Process of the Development in the Modern City : the Case of Ogaki in Gifu Prefecture.2005

    • Author(s)
      OKAJIKMA Ken
    • Journal Title

      Transactions of The Academic Society of the Humanities(Kokushikan University) 37

      Pages: 81-107

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Coal Mining Industry and Colonization Program in Karafuto(Southern Sakhalin) in the 1930s.2005

    • Author(s)
      MIKI Masafumi
    • Journal Title

      AJIA KEIZAI(Monthly Journal of the Institute of Developing Economics) 46-5

      Pages: 2-18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 明治・大正期の茨城県における牛馬耕普及の地域性2004

    • Author(s)
      中西僚太郎
    • Journal Title

      千葉大学教育学部地理学研究報告 15号

      Pages: 25-40

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 明治・大正期の北陸地方における銀行立地展開過程の地域的特性2004

    • Author(s)
      山根 拓(岡谷智和との共著)
    • Journal Title

      自然と社会-北陸- 70号

      Pages: 4-21

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 近代都市大垣の発達と河川水運の利用2004

    • Author(s)
      岡島 建
    • Journal Title

      国士舘大学文学部人文学会紀要 37号

      Pages: 81-107

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 北関東における温泉地の近代化-温泉の利用形態と交通手段の変化-2004

    • Author(s)
      関戸明子
    • Journal Title

      群馬大学教育学部紀要(人文・社会科学編) 53号

      Pages: 219-239

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 戦間期大阪市をめぐる貨物輸送と中央卸売市場の成立2004

    • Author(s)
      三木理史
    • Journal Title

      交通史研究 54号

      Pages: 1-21

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 済州島に渡った壱岐の人びと-日本植民地下における城山浦の日本人-2004

    • Author(s)
      河原典史
    • Journal Title

      耽羅研究通信 72号

      Pages: 2-5

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Regional differences in the diffusion of plowing with draft animals in Ibaraki Prefecture from the Late Meiji Era to the Early Taisho Era.2004

    • Author(s)
      NAKANISHI Ryotaro
    • Journal Title

      Geographical Report of Department of Geography(Faculty of Education, Chiba University) 15

      Pages: 25-40

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Regional Development Process of Banking System in Hokuriku Region, 1870s-1926s.2004

    • Author(s)
      OKATANI Tomokazu, YAMANE Hiroshi
    • Journal Title

      The Nature and Society 70

      Pages: 4-21

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Modernization of Hot Spring Facilities in the Northern Kanto District : Changes in the Use of Hot Springs and in Means of Transportation.2004

    • Author(s)
      SEKIDO Akiko
    • Journal Title

      Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series 53

      Pages: 219-239

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Relationship between the Freight Traffic and the Construction of the Central Whole-Sale Market in Osaka City ; the Time between the World War I and the World War II.2004

    • Author(s)
      MIKI Masafumi
    • Journal Title

      KOTSUHI KENKYU(Historical Review of Transport and Communications) 54

      Pages: 1-21

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Emigrants from Iki-Island to Songsan-po at Cheju-Island in Korea under the Japanese Rule.2004

    • Author(s)
      KAWAHARA Norifumi
    • Journal Title

      TAMLA KENKYU TUSHIN(Report for Tamla) 72

      Pages: 2-5

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Symposium The Formation of Region in Modern Japan from the Viewpoint of the Nation, Society, and Individuals2003

    • Author(s)
      YAMANE Hiroshi, et al.
    • Journal Title

      Geographical Review of Japan 76-5

      Pages: 160-166

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 「都市鉄道」の成立-戦間期大阪市と近郊の事例による考察-2003

    • Author(s)
      三木理史
    • Journal Title

      技術と文明(日本産業技術史学会) 14巻1号

      Pages: 19-41

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Formation of Region in Modern Japan from the Viewpoint of the Nation, Society, and Individuals.2003

    • Author(s)
      YAMANE Hiroshi, et al.
    • Journal Title

      Geographical Review of Japan 76-5

      Pages: 408-414

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Emergence "Urban Railways" : A Case Study based on the Rail Network in the Osaka Metropolitan Area during the Inter-War Period of Japan.2003

    • Author(s)
      MIKI Masafumi
    • Journal Title

      THE GIZYUTU TO BUNMEI(Journal of the Japan Society for the History of Industrial Technology) 26

      Pages: 19-41

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 鳥瞰図絵師・松井天山の画業と画風2002

    • Author(s)
      中西僚太郎
    • Journal Title

      千葉大学教育学部地理学研究報告 13号

      Pages: 11-20

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 鳥瞰図に描かれた伊香保温泉の景観2002

    • Author(s)
      関戸明子
    • Journal Title

      えりあぐんま 8号

      Pages: 23-40

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The List and the Style of Painting on the Bird's-eye Views of Matsui Tenzan.2002

    • Author(s)
      NAKANISHI Ryotaro
    • Journal Title

      Geographical Report of Department of Geography(Faculty of Education, Chiba University) 13

      Pages: 11-20

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Landscapes of Ikaho Spa drawn by the Bird's-eye View Maps.2002

    • Author(s)
      SEKIDO Akiko
    • Journal Title

      Area Gunma 8

      Pages: 23-40

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] 水の都と都市交通-大阪の20世紀-(近代日本交通史第9巻)2003

    • Author(s)
      三木 理史
    • Total Pages
      212
    • Publisher
      成山堂書店
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Urban Transport History in Osaka in the 20th.2003

    • Author(s)
      MIKI Masafumi
    • Total Pages
      212
    • Publisher
      Seizando Shoten, Tokyo
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2006-07-11  

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