著者

木谷 正夫

出版者

日本地理教育学会

雑誌

新地理 (ISSN:05598362)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, no.1, pp.9-22, 1965-06-25 (Released:2010-02-26)

著者

木谷 正夫

出版者

日本地理教育学会

雑誌

新地理 (ISSN:05598362)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, no.3, pp.1-12, 1970-12-25 (Released:2010-02-26)

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For as long as half a century up to 1926, there existed 537 county offices in all Japanese prefectures excluding Hokkaido. Each of these was the peripheral organization of the bureaucratic centralized authoritarian local government system, which under the district system law in the Meiji and Taisho era made the national administrative influence permeate into the remotest corner of the country. The district office was not so large an organization but the town in which it was located, in any case, was the centre of its county. Naturally various official and non-official offices were established in its neighbourhood.The seat of district office was not always the same as the most prosperous town in the district, nor was it in the middle of the county. In most cases, many hostorical factors and the will of prefectural government had to do with the decision of the county office site.After the end of the official district system, the ground on which former district offices stood were generally taken over by some local agencies of the prefecture, city or town halls, etc. Some are absorbed in prosperous quarters of the town, but few have been reduced to ruins, and left unutilized.Broadly speaking, the regional pattern of the district system era in Japan has not undergone great change except in the so-called the Tokaido-Pacific Belt, especially the Tokyo and Osaka area.By forming the network which links the places where former district centers were located over the whole country we can with comparative ease revive the Japanesse politicogeographical structure in the first quarter of the present century and compare it with that of today.An investigation into the former sites of county offices will provide us with a correct standpoint from which we may make an observation of the Japanese geographical pattern half a century or so ago.

著者

木谷 正夫

出版者

日本地理教育学会

雑誌

新地理 (ISSN:05598362)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.3, pp.1-15, 1964-12-25 (Released:2010-02-26)

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