A Study of the Political, Administrative and Financial History about Urbanization and Industrialization of the Provincial Cities

本研究课题考察近代日本城市化和工业化进程中的部分省辖市。项目的主要资料是北九州自然历史和人类历史博物馆拥有的关于安川庆一郎的文献。通过对安川档案的充分利用，不仅可以揭示作为地方财阀代表的安川财阀的经营活动，而且可以揭示在近代日本城市化过程中，企业、政党、地方政府、社会运动等行为主体的活动。考察他们的活动及其相互关系，可以为研究近代日本的地方城市化提供新的视角。安川文献包括日记、企业经营文件、书信和草稿等。通过对它们的分析，我们可以把许多问题弄清楚。分析指出，安川在甲午战争时期因煤炭繁荣而获利，他投资于扩大矿区和铁路股票，从而实现了业务的多元化。通过对日记、信件、草稿以及其他文件的检查，例如Matono Hansuke文件、Nagae Junichi文件和报纸，我们发现安川在福冈市参加大选，在那里他可以获得Gen'yousha和Seiyukai的支持。安川与中央政界有着千丝万缕的联系，在大沼内阁时期，他有意打造能够制衡日本自民党和清友会的第三股势力，意图稳定日中关系，向中国投入资本。

This research project investigates the parts of the provincial cities in the urbanization and industrialization of modern Japan. Primary data of the project are the documents about Yasukawa Keiichiro, owned by Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History ＆ Human History. By making full use of Yasukawa documents, we expect not only to reveal the business activity of Yasukawa zaibatsu which is regarded as a representative provincial zaibatsu, but also to throw light on activities of actors, for example, enterprises, parties, local goverments, social movements, who played parts in urbanization of modern Japan. Inspecting their activities and mutual relationship is supposed to shed new light on the studies of provincial urbanization in modern Japan.Yasukawa documents consist of his diaries, documents of corporate management, letters, and drafts. By analizing them, we can make many subjects clear. Analysis of books points out that Yasukawa who gained porfits by coal boom in Sino-Japanese War era invested in expansion of mining areas and rail-way stocks, and so he could carry out business diversification. Inspection of diaries, letters and drafts with another documents, for example Matono Hansuke documents, Nagae Junichi documents, and newspapaers, we have revealed that Yasukawa campaigned for general election in Fukuoka city Where he could gain support both from the Gen'yousha and the Seiyukai. Yasukawa had personal relationship in central political world, and intended to make the third force which could check both the Rikken-doshikai and the Seiyukai in the Okuma Cabinet era, with the intention of stabilizing the relationship between Japan and China to invest capital in China.