The Political Structure and Regional Societies in Modern Japan

本研究以福冈县为例，探讨近代日本的政治结构与地域社会的关系。本项目特别关注地方“民间人物”的政治和经济活动，目的之一是探索地方史研究作为现代日本一般历史研究中的一个独立研究领域的潜力。该项目试图揭示1887年前后各个地区政治领域的自治活力。这一时期日本确立的构成议会民主制基本特征的制度和机构，都是从西方引进的。它们在日本的确立过程，也是它们与传统政治决策机构争霸、融合、相互转化的过程。该项目显示，该地区 ...更多信息 1887年前后，地方企业家积极而迅速地响应了国家工业化和经济结构的变化，与传统地主和官僚合作，为各种企业的建立奠定了基础。特别值得注意的是，他们共同的政治利益，并有效地使政治和经济制度在区域一级相互依存。作为工业化的推动力和支柱的地方企业的建立和政党的形成，都是地方企业家活动的结果，而以地方企业家为重要节点的多层次网络在各个地区的出现，决定了近代日本政治制度形成阶段的结构特征。少

This research project investigates the relationship between the political structre of modern Japan and regional societies by examining data from Fukuoka prefecture. The project particularly focuses on the political and economic activities of local "popular figures".An objective of the project is to explore the potential of the study of regional history as an independent research field in the general historical study of modern Japan. The project attempts to shed new light on the autonomous dynamism of the political sphere of individual regions in the period around 1887. The systems and institutions constituting the basic properties of parliamentary democrasy, established in Japan during the period, were all adopted from the west. The process through which they were established in Japan was also the process through which they and the traditional political decision-making apparatus competed the hegemony, became amalgamated, and mutually trasformed. The project has revealed that the region … More al politico-economic dynamism contirbuted significantly to this process.During the perid around 1887, local entrepreneurs responded actively and quickly to the industrialization and related transformations of the economic structure of the nation, and, in collaboration with the traditional landowners and bureaucrats, laid the foundation upon which various corporeal enterprises were established. It is particularly noteworthy that they shared political interests, and that effectively made the political and economic systems interdependent in reginal level. The foundation of corporeal enterprises, a driving force and a pillar of the industrialization, and the formation of political parties were both the outcomes of the activities of the local entrepreneurs, and the multi-layered networks emerged in individual regions, in which the local entrepreneurs acted as an important node, the project concludes, determined the structural properties of the political systems of modern Japan during their formative phase. Less