Sino-Japanese War as a World War -Multilateral Approach with Multi-archives

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H03322
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Keiai University
• Principal Investigator: IECHIKA RYOKO 敬愛大学, 国際学部, 教授 (10306392)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 河原地 英武 京都産業大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (60224870) ; 岩谷 將 北海道大学, 法学研究科, 教授 (80779562) ; 川島 真 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (90301861)
• Research Collaborator: HIRANO Tatushi 東京大学, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 院生
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 日中戦争 / 世界戦争 / ソ連外交文書 / 盧溝橋事件 / 中ソ不可侵条約 / 蒋介石 / スターリン / IPR

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to collect the necessary historical materials for the purpose of analyzing the Sino-Japanese War from a global perspective, the research project members went surveys in the National Archives as well as National Libraries of the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Netherlands, Russia, Hawaii and Taiwan.　All of the collected materials were used to write each member’s articles.
The finding from the collaborative research is published in a book entitled The Sino-Japanese War and Sino-Soviet Relationship -the translation , the thesis and abstract of the 1937 Soviet Diplomatic Archives-, by Tokyo University Press, 2018. In the book Kawaraji Hidetake and Hirano Tatsushi took charge of the translation and thesis, Iechika Ryoko, Kawashima Shin and Iwatani Nobu wrote the abstract.

Free Research Field

日中関係史、近現代中国政治史