Indigenous peoples in Japan before 1945 - the fundamental research for "comparative study of indigenous peoples"

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25283015
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: LEE Kenji 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (70329978)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 島村 恭則 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (10311135) ; 上水流 久彦 県立広島大学, 地域連携センター, 准教授 (50364104) ; 齋藤 由紀 大阪国際大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (50233846)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 比較文化 / 表象文化 / 民俗学 / 先住民 / 文化人類学 / 観光学 / 文化研究 / 社会学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our study team knew that the goverment officers and the commissioned officers of the Japanese Empire controlled indigenous peoples in Japan, for example Aynu, Okinawans, indigenous Taiwanese, and Micronesian Islanders. Especially, we remarked the commissioned officers had governed them by military thought. Because the Japanese military had particular thought on the indigenous peoples. So I studied the indigerous peoples stand in Japanese Empire by the Colonial Koreans stand. Korea was a colony of Japan before 1945 for 36 years but the King of Korea was a quasi-emperial family in Japanese Empire, also the King of Korea, Ewn Lee, a general of Japanese Empire. Therefore we made him a viewpoint to analyze indigenous peoples, because he was a unique position, a top of the military, a top of the goverment officer and a colonist in Japanese Empier. Now I have written some papers of this study, will publish them in this autumn.

Free Research Field

比較文化論