Comparative study on urban governance over the leisure in Germany and Japan in the interwar period: Kraft durch Freude and Kosei Undo

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K01788
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07070:Economic history-related
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: MORI Takahito 一橋大学, 大学院経済学研究科, 教授 (10401671)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 余暇 / トランスナショナル・ヒストリー / 歓喜力行団（KdF） / 厚生運動 / 都市ガバナンス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

From the perspective of "urban governance", this project conducted a comparative study of the "Strength through Joy" (KdF) and Japan Recreation Campaign (Kosei Undo) and analysed the interrelationships between them in order to elucidate the factors that enabled German and Japanese cities to develop totalitarian leisure organisation in the interwar period. "Urban governance is defined here as a social order of urban space created through the interactions of different actors within and outside the city. The project concludes that Kosei Undo was derived from the Daily Life Improvement Campaign developed in the 1920s, and that the KdF functioned as a catalyst for this process.

Free Research Field

近現代西洋経済史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

KdFと厚生運動に関しては、日独両国において分厚い蓄積があるが、その多くが両国の全体主義的な総力戦体制の構築過程を余暇の組織化から検討する一国史的な視座に立つものであった。両者の関係史を取り組んだ先行研究も存在するが、その分析は指導者の言説に限定されていた。本研究では、トランスナショナルな都市史の観点からKdFと厚生運動の実態と歴史経路の比較分析を行い、両大戦間期の日独都市において余暇の組織化が共時的に展開し得た要因と、その歴史的意義の一端を明らかにすることができた。