A Historical Study on Forestry Education, Forestry Administration, and Local Forestry Industry in Modern Japanese Higher Education Institutions

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13838
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 09010:Education-related
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Sasaki Tomoko 北海道大学, 大学文書館, 特定専門職 (70830644)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 帝国大学 / 林学実科 / 林学 / 卒後進路

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Department of Forestry, the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, established in 1908. Subjects were organized based on the subjects of the preceding Department of Agriculture, Tokyo Imperial University, and then revised in 1910 and 1913, "Colonization Studies", "Forest Entomology", "Forest Aesthetics", etc. Many of the graduates were advanced in forest accounting, afforestation, and forest utilization, and those who remained as instructors were graduates who majored in forest accounting and afforestation.
Regarding the career paths of 1,059 graduates of the forestry course attached to Sapporo Agricultural College and the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, when we tallied up the places of employment and places of work, the largest number of people worked at the Forestry Bureau, followed by the Governor-General of Korea and the Hokkaido Government Office.

Free Research Field

教育史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、高等教育機関において教授される「林学」と、卒業生が携わる「林産業」との間を、卒業生の大学史の立場からつなぐことを試みた。対象となる教育機関のうちの一部ではあるが、東北帝国大学農科大学林学科の学生、及び付設の林学課程の生徒について、在学から卒業後に至るまでの基礎的な状況を、卒業論文題目の一覧、勤務先の人数一覧等、具体的に整理した。