Comparative Study on the Historical Interrelationship between Regional Industrialization and the Formation of Modern National Economy

无论是在日本还是国外，工业化的历史研究都越来越多地采用了区域视角。在研究项目中，我们从这个角度考虑了工业化进程的各个方面。这里使用的“地区”是一个历史上可操作的概念：在某些情况下，我们指的是行政单位(区、县、州、州或它们的某种形式的集团)，在其他情况下指的是州际工业区(如德国-比利时边境地区)。不仅是工业化进程本身，而且深入考察了工业化的前提条件和早期条件、土地制度、人口流动、城市化、社会分工状况等。每个研究者的研究对象不同，涵盖的领域和地区很广，但主要是西欧、中欧和日本工业化时期(包括一些前工业时期)。在区域视角的共同方法下，每个研究都探讨了原工业化与工业化的关系，以及不同产业发展所产生的区域专业化，并分析了影响工业化/去工业化的因素。我们现在相信，我们可以做出一些贡献，证明工业革命本身就是这种区域工业发展过程的产物，尽管一些影响因素尚不清楚。

Regional perspective has become increasingly adopted in the historical study of industrialization both in Japan and abroad. In the research project we have considered various aspects of the process of industrialization from this perspective. "Region " as used here is a historically operational concept : in some cases we mean by it administrative uint (district, county, prefecture, state, or some form of group fo them), inter-state industrial regions (such as German-Belgian border district) in other. Not only industrialization process itself, but some factors which deeply concerned it have been thoroughly investigated-pre-conditions and early conditions of industrialization, agrarian system, population movement, urbanization, state of the social division of labor, and so on.The research subject of each investigator differs, covering a wide field and area, but mainly western and central Europe and Japan in the period of industrialization (including some of pre-industrial period.) Under common method of regional perspective, each study explored the relationship of proto-industrialization and industrialization, regional specialization which emerged through different industrial developments, and analyzed the factors which affected industrialization/de-industrialization. We are now convinced that we could make some contributions to prove that the Industrial Revolution as itself is a product of such regional process of industrial development, though some influential factors remain unclarified.