Historical Sociology on Collective Memory and Regional Sociology on Collective Memory of Repatriates from "Manchukuo"

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K04063
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Institute on Social Theory and Dynamics (2017-2019); Kyoto University (2016)
• Principal Investigator: Inomata Yusuke 特定非営利活動法人社会理論・動態研究所, 研究部, 研究員 (20513245)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 満洲移民 / 満洲引揚者 / 反戦運動 / 難民生活 / 反権力思想 / 侵略性の自覚

Outline of Final Research Achievements

First, Nagano Prefecture conducted an interview survey with the Mangaku Pioneer Peace Memorial Hall, Maizuru with the "Retirement Memorial Hall", and Hakata with staff from the Fukuoka City website "Retired Port/Hakata." As a result, first of all, regarding the storyteller, it was made clear how the experience of Manchuria was memorized. In addition, the changes were clarified by comparing the "remembering of the past" and "remembering the present" in past interviews, diaries, and experiences.
It was clarified that the refugee experience of Manchurian withdrawal could be linked to the peace movement through distrust of state power. He also identified the "attack" by the settlers during the Manchurian repatriation experience as a consequence of the invasion and colonial rule, and clarified the possibility of self-reflection.

Free Research Field

歴史社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで満洲移民体験は空襲・原爆などと並ぶ敗戦体験として、日本の敗戦を強調する戦争体験とされてきた。しかし満洲引体験の聞き取り体験者などはそうとは限らないことが判明した。敗戦直後の難民生活が平和運動につながる可能性があった。また敗戦直後の現地住民による襲撃などの加害体験は、その背景となった加害体験への自覚につながった。満洲移民体験が被害者意識の戦争体験を形成するのではなく、難民体験に根ざし反戦思想や自らの侵略性への気付きにつながったことは、日本の反戦思想を解明する上で大きな成果があったといえる。