The Study on Guide Books about visiting America

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25580060
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Akita Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: KAGAYA Masumi 秋田県立大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 助教 (70635044)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ラトガース大学 / 海外雄飛 / 渡米の手引書 / 片山潜 / 私費留学生 / スクールボーイ / 苦学生 / 力行会

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study titled as “Research on Guidebooks for Visiting the U.S. Published in Meiji Era” was performed aiming at clarifying belonged hierarchy of young people (in particular, self-supporting students studying abroad among others) who crossed the sea taking the opportunity of a boom of the U.S. visit in Meiji era and further discuss “a picture of young man to positively fly overseas” expected by the society back then. As a result of examination of the guidebooks and the related documents, it has been recognized that with a large trend among intellectual figures and organizations to support struggling students back then to support and send young people who belonged to economically poor hierarchy to the U.S., a large number of working students actually crossed the sea and that there was a student (from Rikko kai) who entered Rutgers University on the East Coast where it was more difficult to get a job and receive education than West Coast.

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