著者

高嶋 雅明

出版者

土地制度史学会(現 政治経済学・経済史学会)

雑誌

土地制度史学 (ISSN:04933567)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.14, no.4, pp.35-50, 1972

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It is one of the important subjects of research to see how the emigration of the Japanese people and the advance of our Government, Armed Forces and Monopolists into foreign territories were interrelated to make up the whole body of the Japanese imperialistic, invasion in the early decades of this century. I tried in the following study to approach this problem by making clear the relation・・・・・・mainly in trade・・・・・・between Japan and the Vladivostok districts which had a great deal to do with the so-called "Manchuria, Mongol and the Russian Far East." By examining the nature of the trade and by analyzing the business management of the representative Japanese financial agencies in the Vladivostok districts, I tried to elucidate the historical fact that these agencies were founded one after another just in accordance with the various stages of the development of trade between Japan and Vladivostok. Some of the conclusions reached are as follows : (1) The Japan-Vladivostok trade before the Russo-Japanese War was limited mainly to the supply of materials needed for the maintenace of the functions of Vladivostok Harbor and to the small transactions with the Japanese emigrant workers ; consequently the financial business was carried out only by the small branches of private firms, for example, Vladivostok Sugiura Bank. (2) In time, however, the trade came to be centered upon Manchurian beans, and the increase of exchange transactions with various parts of the world made it imperative for modern financial establishments to found their branches in Vladivostok. Vladivostok Matsuda Bank ・・・ an overseas branch of Juhachi Bank, a provincial bank with its main office in Nagasaki ・・・ put its small capital and the deposits of the Chinese and Korean merchants into the selling and buying of foreign bills addressed to London, Yokohama and Osaka in connection with Vladivostok trade. (3) Finally big businesses began to take into their hands the trade of Manchurian beans and they came to take notice of the political and economic significance of "Manchuria, Mongol and the Russian Far East", and thus Vladivostok Harbor was regarded as an important outpost for their purpose; hence the advance of Yokohama Specie Bank and Korean Bank into these districts. And these special banks made the way clear for a financial rule over Manchuria by the Japanese imperialists.