The Legal and Sociohistorical Study of the Yokouchi-Family Archives in Modern Okinawa

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25245004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Okinawa University
• Principal Investigator: Tasato Osamu 沖縄大学, 法経学部, 教授 (40179685)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 矢野 達雄 広島修道大学, 法学部, 教授 (00136300) ; 青嶋 敏 愛知教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (10202483) ; 奥山 恭子 横浜国立大学, その他部局等, 名誉教授 (50214086) ; 林 研三 札幌大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (60218568) ; 森 謙二 茨城キリスト教大学, 文学部, 教授 (90113282) ; 牧田 勲 摂南大学, 法学部, 教授 (90209403)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-10-21 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 横内家史料 / 沖縄近代史資料 / 地方制度 / 土地制度 / 戸籍制度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Yokouchi-family archives were possessed by Tasuku Yokouchi who was the staff of Okinawa prefecture. They consist of approximately 20,000 historical documents, and were donated to Naha city in 1993. This Yokouchi-family archives include a number of documents concerning Okinawa prefectural government from the Meiji period to the Taisho period, therefore they are very valuable for the research on the legal history of modern Okinawa. The aim of this research was to capture the Yokouchi-family archives in digital formats and record them on digital versatile discs. By 2017 we have finished digitalizing all the Yokouchi-family archives. This made it possible for the Yokouchi-family archives to be utilized by a wide range of people, for example, the scholars and the citizens. The report of this research, “The Formation and the Development of Law in Modern Okinawa”, was issued in 2017. The representative of this research, Tasato, and four researchers contributed to this report.

Free Research Field

法社会史