Studies on Cabinets during the Oil Crises

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330038
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: MIKURIYA Takashi 東京大学, 先端科学技術研究センター, 客員教授 (00092338)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKINA Kunio 京都大学, 大学院公共政策連携研究部, 教授 (00185521) ; MAKIHARA Izuru 東京大学, 先端科学技術研究センター, 教授 (00238891) ; ITO Masatsugu 首都大学東京, 大学院社会科学研究科, 教授 (40347258) ; TEZUKA Yosuke 大阪市立大学, 大学院法学研究科, 准教授 (60376671) ; SUNAHARA Yosuke 大阪大学, 大学院法学研究科, 准教授 (40549680)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 日本政治史 / 内閣 / 石油危機 / 自民党

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study was aimed to find out the handling of the government during the oil crises of the 1970s. To that end, We analyzed the diaries written by OKINA Kyujiro who served the Administative Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Ohira and Suzuki administrations. The results obtained reveal, first, that personal connections changed in the succession between the Sato and Tanaka administrations. Second, that he played the important role similar to a politician and coordinated public policies through managing cabinet meeting and ministerial meeting.

Free Research Field

政治学