A Historical Study on Debate of Assembly in the Early Meiji Period

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K21462
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese history; Politics
• Research Institution: 防衛大学校(総合教育学群、人文社会科学群、応用科学群、電気情報学群及びシステム工学群) (2016-2017); Tokyo Future University (2015)
• Principal Investigator: Mimura Shoji 防衛大学校(総合教育学群、人文社会科学群、応用科学群、電気情報学群及びシステム工学群), 人文社会科学群, 准教授 (40525929)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 郡中議事者 / 公議所 / 討論 / 初期県会

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, I examined the debate of assemblies in the early Meiji period. It became that the members of “Kogisho” (the Assembly in the early years of Meiji period) occasionally tried to kill other member who was opposed to, because they couldn’t approve other opinion’s fundamental legitimacy. However, in the mid-1870s, the local assemblies could function by making the rule of debate.
In addition, I researched the relation between the member of assemblies and the area at which they were selected. “Gunchu-Gijisha” (a member for debate about production in Kashiwazaki Prefecture in the early years of Meiji period) was selected as the representative of the united area. But the “Gunchu-Gijisha” acted on the basis of the early-modern social principle. There was a discrepancy between the modern system and the pre-modern experience in the case of “Gunchu-Gijisha.”

Free Research Field

日本近代史