A BASIC STUDY ON POWER STRUCTURES DURING THE YOKUSAN (THE SUPPORTING ASSOCIATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION) REGIME PERIOD : RESEARCHES ON THE PROCESSES OF POLICY DECISIONS AND POWER INTEGRATION IN LOCAL AREAS

该项目收集了基本数据，将为理解日中战争和日本太平洋战争之间的政治权力结构提供一种新的方式。为了考察权力结构，最重要的是详细阐明不同层面上的政治和社会决策过程的具体特征。然而，在现实中很难对其进行分析，这部分是因为我们可以依赖的档案数量很少，特别是能够告诉我们政策渗透和动员的实际情况的档案很少。因此，该项目的主要目的是收集和重新整理档案，首先是关于大成横须贺(行政支援会)成立后的决策过程，其次是大成横须贺地方分会的活动。该项目最成功的贡献是介绍和分析…福冈县福冈县分会的电子公报和田川分会的档案更多。大成横断会福冈县分会的电子公报(‘横山福冈’、‘吉浩’和‘大成横三’)只是通过这个项目发现的，还没有出版过。据信，大成横断会的地方分会大多都发布了自己的公报，尽管迄今鲜有报道，但更难找到记录地方分会活动的一定数量的原始档案得到完整保存的情况。田川分会的档案数量之多，足以进行详细的审查。该项目对仅在有限范围内为人所知的档案编制了目录，使我们能够了解它们的全部内容。它还将使我们能够进一步研究地方分支机构的具体组织结构，研究通过仪式化做法进行动员的方法，然后了解大成横滨会地方分支机构是如何作为机构的一部分运作的，在这个机构中，人们被迫向政府运送食物或储蓄。较少

This project has collected basic data that would provide a new way of understanding of political power structures between the Japanese-Chinese War and the Pacific War in Japan. In order to examine the power structures, it is supposed to be most important to clarify specific features of political and social processes of decision making on different levels in detail. However, it has been very difficult to analyze them as such in reality, This is partly because the number of archives that we can rely on and, in particular that could tell us the actual conditions of infiltration of policy and mobilization is very few.The major aim of the project is, therefore, to collect and re-organize archives concerning, firstly the processes of decision making after the establishment of the Taisei Yokusankai (The Supporting Association of the Administration) and, secondly activities of local branches of the Taisei Yokusankai. The most successful contribution of the project is to introduce and to analyz … More e bulletins of the Fukuoka prefectural branch and archives of the Tagawa branch in Fukuoka Prefecture.The bulletins of the Fukuoka prefectural branch of the Taisei Yokusankai ('Yokusan Fukuoka', 'Jiho', and 'Taisei Yokusan') were discovered only through this project and have not been published yet. It has been believed that most local branches of the Taisei Yokusankai had published their own bulletins, although few of them have been reported so far.It is more difficult find a case that a certain amount of original archives documenting the activities of local branches have been fully maintained. The amount of archives of the Tagawa branch is large enough to be examined in detail. The project has made a catalog of the archives, which have been known only within a limited circle, and enabled us to understand their whole content. It will also enable us to further study concrete organizational formations in local branches, to examine a way of mobilization through ritualized practices and then to understand how the local branches of the Taisei Yokusankai functioned as a part of an institution in which people were forced to deliver food to the government or to keep savings. Less