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理解日中战争和太平洋战争之间的日本政治权力结构提供新的途径。为了研究权力结构，最重要的是要详细阐明不同层次的政治和社会决策过程的具体特征。但在现实中很难进行分析，这一方面是因为我们可以依靠的档案数量很少，特别是可以告诉我们政策和动员渗透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整理有关档案，首先是大成优三会（行政支援协会）成立后的决策过程，其次是大成优三会地方分会的活动。该项目最成功的贡献是介绍和分析了 ...更多信息 e福冈县分支的公报和福冈县田川分支的档案。大成横山会（'横山福冈'、'Jiho'和'大成横山'）福冈县分支的公报仅通过该项目被发现，尚未出版。一般认为，大成优三会的大多数地方分会都出版过自己的公报，但迄今为止报道的很少，更难找到一个案例，即记录地方分会活动的一定数量的原始档案得到了完整的保存。田川分支的档案数量庞大，值得详细研究。该项目编制了一份档案目录，这些档案只在有限的圈子内为人所知，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，研究通过仪式化实践进行动员的方式，然后了解大成优三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