2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Basic study of postwar Tohoku: On the research about Tohoku Images
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25370776
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Japanese history
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 東北史 / 東北論 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The story that Tohoku region is backward was born in 1960s. At that time Japanese capitalism needed to shift the labors from agricultural villages to cities. So it emphasized that Tohoku is the backward region. By specifying Tohoku as backward and disadvantaged zone, Japanese capitalism produced the superiority of mega city like Tokyo and encouraged people transfer from villages to cities. The invention of ‘Backward Tohoku’ is one of the functions of Nation-State. Combining prewar Tohoku images and postwar them will draw the new picture of modern Japanese history.
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| Free Research Field |
日本史
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