著者
佃 隆一郎 ツクダ リュイチロウ Ryuichiro Tsukuda
雑誌
雲雀野 = The Lark Hill
巻号頁・発行日
vol.27, pp.145-158, 2005-03-31

This place (Takashibara and Tempakubara) where Toyohashi University of Technology is built, before the end of World War II, there was used by Japanese Imperial Army as a land of large maneuvers. About 85 years ago, Toyohashi area was called "Gunto" (meaned military city). Because the No.15 division was placed there, and this citizens had a lot of benefits from the division both materially and morally. However the farmers who lived in the maneuvers land suffered great damage because of the maneuvers. So they demanded compensation from Army, but this negotiation was not progress. While their problem was getting worse, in 1924, the news of disarmament arrived at Toyohashi, it said that the No.15 division was about to be abolished. The authorities and many citizens in Toyohashi area were confused, and their problems was considered as the root of the division's abolish. The Toyohashi Nichinichi Shimbun (Toyo-nichi), which was one of the local newspaper at that time, began to insist on handling their problems willingly. But in the end, the No.15 division's abolish was carried out in the spring of 1925, the maneuvers' problem still remained after the end of "Gunto-Toyohashi". Then Toyo-nichi continued the insistance about that problem, in order to build new Toyohashi under the slogan of "Greater Toyohashi". However these insistances were gradually changing that "national defence" was aim of solving the problem. Both Toyo-nichi's insistance and the maneuvers' problem continued until opening the period of War after all.