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

本课题主要研究日本近代城市化与工业化进程中省道城市的组成部分。该项目的主要资料是北九州自然历史和人类历史博物馆收藏的有关安川敬一郎的文献。我们希望通过对安川文献的充分利用，不仅能揭示作为代表性省际财阀的安川财阀的经营活动，还能揭示企业、政党、地方政府、社会运动等行动者在近代日本城市化进程中所起的作用。考察他们的活动及其相互关系，有望为近代日本省域城市化研究提供新的思路。安川的文件包括他的日记、公司经营文件、信件和草稿。通过分析它们，我们可以弄清楚许多主题。通过对书籍的分析，指出在甲午战争时期的煤炭热潮中获利的安川投资于矿区的扩张和铁路股票，从而实现了业务的多元化。通过对Matono Hansuke文件、Nagae Junichi文件、报纸等日记、书信、草稿等资料的分析，我们发现，安川在福冈市进行议会选举时，得到了根友社和精友会的支持。安川在中央政界有个人关系，企图在大隈内阁时代成为既能牵制理建社又能牵制精友会的第三势力，以稳定日中关系为目的对中国进行投资。

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.