| Project/Area Number |
16560572
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Architectural history/design
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| Research Institution | Okinawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
ONO Keiko Okinawa University, Dep.of Law and Economics, Associate Professor, 法経学部, 助教授 (50369211)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ANDO Tetsuya University of the Ryukyus, Dep.of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (60222783)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Keywords | Nan'yo / Nanshin / Japanese settlements / Davao / Mindanao / Philippines / urban morphology / Okinawan migrants |
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| Research Abstract |
The Southward Advancement Thought (Nanshin-ron) in Meiji period promoted Japanese migration into the South Seas (Nan' yo). Many Japanese settlements were created from places as far away as Thursday Island in Torres Strait in Northern Australia to the Philippines, Taiwan and Micronesia. This study looks at the urban characteristics of Japanese Settlement in Davao on Mindanao Island in the Philippines, where 20,000 Japanese lived and worked for hemp plantation industry in the beginning of 1940s. This was the biggest Japanese migration settlement under foreign administration in the Pacific other than Hawaii. Half of the Japanese migrants were from Okinawa. The aim is to locate the Japanese settlement in Davao in the genealogy of Japanese settlement building in Nan'yo before World War Two. The following study was conducted. 1)aerial photographs of Davao taken in 1944 by U.S. during the World War Two and other maps produced for military use were collected to see the state of Davao's urban space in the 1940s. Archival research was conducted at Hamilton Library at University of Hawaii and Bishop Museum Archives. 2)The social and physical characteristics of Davao was analyzed and compared with other concurrent settlements ; Thursday Island in Australia, Minamidaito Island in Okinawa, early sugar plantation settlements in Southern Taiwan at the turn of the 20th century. Findings are drawn about the Japanese migration and settlement building that immensely impacted the states of remote island region of the Pacific before the end of World War Two.
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