著者

服部 龍二

出版者

千葉大学

雑誌

千葉大学社会文化科学研究 (ISSN:13428403)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.7-32, 1998-02-28

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In treating the Hara cabinet's railroad policy in China, this paper analyzes Japanese economic expansion in China during the immediate post World War I era and reexamines Japanese foreign policy toward the New Consortium which has been regarded in general as a typical case of cooperative diplomacy with America and Britain. The Hara cabinet inherited from the former Terauchi cabinet the policy to extend the Nanchang-Jiujiang railway line in northern Kiangsi. Supported by the Hara cabinet, Toa Kogyo Company took the initiative in the negotiations with China and finalized a loan contract with Nanchang-Jiujiang Railway Company to extend the Nanchang-Jiujiang railway line. This Sino-Japanese loan contract was intended for the building of the Nanchang-Pingxiang railway line. However, this line was part of the larger Nanjing-Hunan railway line whose loan contract had already been offered to the New Consortium by British bankers. Japan, in other words, reached an agreement on the loan contract to extend the Nanchang-Jiujiang railway line without notifying the New Consortium, which had already been granted the rights to build the Nanjing-Hunan railway line. Trying to expand its economic concessions in China, Japan slighted cooperation with America, Britain, and France. The Hara cabinet, in addition, tried to extend the Siping-Zhengjiatun railway line in Manchuria and concluded the Siping-Taonan Railway loan contract, supporting the negotiations between the South Manchurian Railway Company and the Chinese government. Japan promised to offer funds to a faction in the Chinese government during the negotiations, which contradicted the basic foreign policy of the Hara cabinet that Japan, in line with America and Britain, would never offer funds to China until China was united. While knowing that the New Consortium did not permit any country to build the Zhengjiatun-Tongliao railway line, which was a branch line of the Siping-Taonan railway line, Japan went ahead and built that railway. We can therefore see that the Hara cabine