2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Japanese Tourism Policy for U.S. and East Asian countries in 1930-50s

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23830094
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Sugiyama Jogakuen University
Principal Investigator	ABE Jun'ichiro 椙山女学園大学, 文化情報学部, 講師 (40612916)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	国際観光政策 / 日米関係 / 東アジア関係
Research Abstract	The main results of this research can be summarized as follows. First, I collected and analyzed governmental records of Japanese tourism policies and some journals of tourism organizations in the 1930-40s. On that basis, I compared the Japanese tourism policies, laws, and organizations with German ones under Hitler’s government. Second, I collected and compiled GHQ/SCAP records, governmental records of the Ministry of Transport, and the diet records etc. in order to analyze the post-war reconstruction of border control, especially inbound tourism policy, in the occupied Japan. Third, I collected and examined GHQ/SCAP and FEC records in relation to the subject of travel abroad by Japanese nationals. As a result, the opposing opinions between U.S., Soviet Union, and Asian-Pacific countries about Japan's early reengagement with the international community were made clear. Part of the research results had been presented at conferences organized by the Japan Sociological Society and Kantoh Sociological Society and were later published in academic journals.

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