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

该项目收集的基本数据将为了解日本在中日战争和太平洋战争之间的政治权力结构提供新的途径。为了检验权力结构，最重要的应该是详细阐明不同层次决策的政治和社会过程的具体特征。但是，在现实中很难对其进行分析，部分原因是我们可以依靠的档案数量很少，特别是可以告诉我们渗透政策和动员的实际情况的档案数量很少。因此，该项目的主要目的是收集和重新整理档案，首先是关于大成横山会（行政支援协会）成立后的决策过程，其次是大成横山会地方分支机构的活动。该项目最成功的贡献是介绍和分析了福冈县分院的简报和福冈县田川分院的档案。大成横山会（“Yokusan Fukuoka”、“Jiho”和“大成横山会”）的福冈县分会公报是通过这个项目才发现的，至今尚未出版。据信，大成Yokusankai的大多数地方分支机构都发布了自己的公告，尽管迄今为止很少有报道。较难找到记录地方分支机构活动的一定数量的原始档案得到充分保存的情况。田川分社的档案数量很大，可以详细研究。该项目制作了档案目录，这些档案只在有限的范围内被了解，并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形式，通过仪式化的实践来检验动员的方式，然后了解大成横山会的地方分支机构是如何作为一个机构的一部分发挥作用的，在这个机构中，人们被迫向政府提供食物或保持储蓄。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