Social changes in modern Japan and changes of forms of river-disasters-Cases of torrential rain disasters in Kii-peninsula

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24530683
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Ryukoku University
Principal Investigator	TANAKA Shigeru 龍谷大学, 社会学部, 教授 (60155132)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	YOSHIDA Ryuji 龍谷大学, 社会学部, 教授 (10291361)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords	河川 / 災害 / 近代化 / 国民国家 / ナショナリゼーション / 省有化 / 省庁 / グローバリゼーション / 水力社会 / 行政 / 天災 / 人災
Outline of Final Research Achievements	We tried to clarify how forms of river-disasters had changed influenced by ‘nationalization’ and ‘modernization’ from Meiji period up to postwar Japan. Through the investigation, we could get know the mechanism of ‘ministrization’ that can be regarded as a subcategory of ‘nationalization’ and characterized as ‘enclosure’ of people and organizations by a ministry. People and organizations becoming ‘clients’ of a ministry in due course of ‘ministrization’, communities of farming and mountain villages have been damaged because of weakening of people’s mutual bondage. Here we can find the mechanism of the isolation of suffered people at the time of disasters and that of making artificial causes of river-disasters invisible.