著者
柴田 陽一
出版者
歴史地理学会
雑誌
歴史地理学 (ISSN:03887464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.49, no.5, pp.1-31, 2007-12

This paper examines the role geographers played in the strategy research of the Imperial Japanese Army, focusing on the connection between the General Geographical Study Group (GGSG), or Sogo Chiri Kenkyukai, and the General Staff Office. Recently, much research has been done on the Japanese geopolitical discourses and the involvement of geographers in the Asia-Pacific War. One of the most important subjects in this issue is the GGSG, which was composed of servicemen in the General Staff Office and the geography researchers working at the Department of Geography at Kyoto Imperial University, as well as graduates of that university. However, a close look at previous studies reveals that basic facts about the GGSG were not interpreted correctly because of insufficient analysis of the original sources. Therefore, using original documents, in particular the diary of Colonel Tatsuhiko Takashima who worked in the General Staff Office as well as reports written by the geographers who took part in the GGSG, I have studied a) the group's establishment and background, b) its activities' and the changes in its membership, c) the results of GGSG research on geopolitical area studies and its involvement in Army strategy, and d) the breakup of the group at the end of war. The findings of the present studies suggest that the GGSG played a limited role in the war overall, although it did have the ability to perform tasks requested by the General Staff Office.
著者
鈴木 晃志郎
出版者
歴史地理学会
雑誌
歴史地理学 (ISSN:03887464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.56, no.1, pp.1-20, 2014-01

本論文は、「歴史的景観権」が史上初めて認められて全国的な知名度を得た広島県の鞆の浦で、筆者が2008年に実施したアンケート調査の結果を分析、推進・反対派双方の論理構造を可視化するとともに、賛否の別を問わずその態度の強弱が、ある種の決まり切った説明図式(「神話」性)にどれだけ自己同一化しているかで説明できることを明らかにした。
著者
米家 泰作
出版者
歴史地理学会
雑誌
歴史地理学 = The Historical geography (ISSN:03887464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.58, no.1, pp.19-38, 2016-01

This paper examines the politics of national and regional resources in modern Japan, with special reference to the prohibition of the burning of grassland. Afforestation and the reduction of grassland became one of the most important issues in Japanese forestry during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Following the enclosure of the national forest in the late nineteenth century, the Forest Bureau tried to control vegetation nationwide by promoting the afforestation of private or common gen'ya: a category of land cover including grassland, bush, or thin vegetation, which had been artificially kept for the use of green manure, forage, and fuel, but was not useful for modern forestry. The bureau made an effort to calculate the land area of gen'ya and concluded that half of common land was covered with grass or thin vegetation. In 1910, the bureau attempted to encourage forestry by introducing a rule that forbade local people from maintaining grassland through engaging in periodical field burning. This prohibition policy was supported by the silviculturist representation of grassland as a devastated landscape in which the natural growth of plants had been inhibited through the historical custom of fire. Certain academic foresters, including Seiroku Honda at Tokyo Imperial University, promoted the rebirth of original, natural, and productive vegetation. However, the new rule provoked a refutation of agropolitics by some local areas, which had used grassland for agricultural and daily purposes. In the case of Kiso Region, the southwestern area of Nagano Prefecture, local people protested against the rules, by conducting their own vegetation survey to verify that field burning encouraged the growth of useful plants for foraging and supported regional agriculture. This illustrates that the early twentieth-century silvicultural attitude to gen'ya lacked consideration of how this thin vegetation had been artificially maintained in the human-environment relationship, and played an important role in regional economies.
著者
柴田 陽一
出版者
歴史地理学会
雑誌
歴史地理学 (ISSN:03887464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.47, no.2, pp.42-63, 2005-03

This paper aims to introduce a bibliography of Saneshige Komaki written by himself, and to reveal the characteristic of his writings based on it. Although Komaki was a pioneer of historical geography in Japan and a well-known advocate of Japanese Geopolitics (Nihon-Chiseigaku) during the World War II, we have not had a sufficient bibliography of him. Therefore examination of his thoughts has been done restrictedly. Hence this paper that presents a lot of materials about him contributes to strict examination of his thoughts, especially regarding Japanese Geopolitics.
著者
中西 僚太郎
出版者
歴史地理学会
雑誌
歴史地理学 (ISSN:03887464)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, no.3, pp.p2-22, 1994-06
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