Research on Wealthy people, Investors and Entrepreneurs in Modern Japan

1本项目开始时，9名成员被分为两组：富人组和股东组，分别调查了1898年（明治31年）和1907-08年（明治40-41年）两年的数据。Shisanka小组根据Nippon Zenkoku Shoko Jinmei-roku（全日本商人和制造商目录）建立了数据库，这是一种基本资料，包括商人和制造商的名称、地址、所属行业、所缴纳的税款等。Kabunushi集团制作了股东名单数据库，并将其纳入公司年度报告中。这些数据库已经基本完成，对于分析日本工业化初期的富人、投资者和企业家非常有用。还剩下一些问题。Shisanka组必须检查输入计算机的数据。Kabunushi小组需要进一步收集额外的材料，并将数据输入电脑。然而，我们希望尽快将结果展示给学术协会2 .每个成员都去了日本的一些地方，收集了冈山县仓市的大原家族、广岛县新一的佐佐木家族、东京一桥大学图书馆等有钱人、投资者和企业家的资料每年我们都有两到三次的研讨会，每个成员都对自己的研究做一个报告，所有的参与者都报告了数据库建设的情况，收集资料的情况。等，互相讨论。上述的研究旅行和研讨会对成员们发表了许多文章和书籍有很大的帮助我们还努力收集了许多已出版的有价值的资料，保存在大阪大学主图书馆。

1 At the beginning of this project nine members were divided into two groups : shisanka [wealthy people] group and kabunushi [shareholderes] group, both of which investigated the data of two years of 1898 (Meiji 31 nen) and 1907-08 (Meiji 40-41 nen). Shisanka group built the database from Nippon Zenkoku Shoko Jinmei-roku [All Japan Merchants and Manufacturers' Directory], a basic material which includes names of merchants and manufacturers, their addresses, industries to which they belonged, the taxes which they paid and so on. Kabunushi group made the database of the name lists of shareholders which are included in an annual company report. These databases have been almost completed, which will be very useful in order to analyze the wealthy people, investors and entrepreneurs at the early stage of Japanese industrialization. Some problems are left. Shisanka group must check the data which were entered into a computer. Kabunushi group need to further collect the additional materials and to enter the data into a computer. However, we want to show the results to the academic society as soon as possible.2 Each of the members visited some places in Japan, where he collected the materials relating to wealthy people, investors and entrepreneurs, which the Ohara family at Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture, the Sasaki family at Shin'ichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, the Hitotsubashi University Library in Tokyo, etc. have.3 In every year we had two or three workshops, where each of the members gave his presentation on the individual research, and all the participants reported the situation of the database building, of collecting materials. etc. and discussed each other. The above-mentioned research trips and workshops greatly helped for the members to publish many articles and books.4 We also made great efforts to collect many published valuable materials, which are kept in the main library of the Osaka University.