Knowledge dissemination from the agricultural experiment station of South Manchuria railways to Asia: Impact analysis based on donated and requisitioned materials

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770246
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Gakushuin University
• Principal Investigator: yukawa makie 学習院大学, 付置研究所, 研究員 (20709000)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 満洲国 / 農事試験場 / 技術 / 接収 / 留用 / 戦後日本 / 歴史記憶 / 引揚団体

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study discusses two major findings. First, after the war, the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party used the rice cultivar and its relevant knowledge to support cultivation as a part of conventional agriculture. But the one feature in Manchukuo, which was to transmit the japan mind into the knowledge, was ignored. Second, those, who had worked at the agricultural experiment station of South Manchuria railways before pre-war period, did not deny their former research and agricultural instruction content even after withdrawal back to Japan. Rather, they deepened exchanges with people with the same experience, insisted on the contribution to the agriculture modernization during the Sino-Japanese friendship boom, and re-evaluated the pre-war activity. Consequently, the difference between the content of the agricultural restructuring and the past representation has been identified in post-war China and Japan.

Free Research Field

歴史学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究成果により、戦前の満鉄農事試験場の活動は、技術面のみならず、思想面においても影響が残っていたことが明らかとなった。これまでの研究では思想面との関係は指摘されてこなかったが、満洲の歴史認識の一部は引揚者らが自らの過去を表象するなかで築かれていったことがわかる。