Elected Governors and Economic Development in 1950's

日本从20世纪40年代末开始实行选举产生的知事制度，从50年代开始由选举产生的知事主导地方经济发展政策。本文主要研究日本政治分权与经济发展的关系。主要研究成果是两卷本的关于盟军占领期间地方政府改革的英文文献汇编。对GHQ/SCAP政府组的文件进行了收集和编辑，并介绍了编辑人员。第一卷从1945年到1948年，内容包括废除地区总督、引入民选知事制度、地方选举和废除统里组、制定和修订地方自治法、废除地方分支机构等。第二卷涵盖1948年至1952年，包括地方自治法的信息计划、地方财政问题、地方政府问题和地方公务员法等主题。《1950年的地方税改革》一文分析了占领当局与日本政府关系的变化。这篇论文主要是用上面第二卷的文件写的。

Japan adopted an elected-governor system in late 1940s and those elected governors took a lead in local economic development policies in 1950s. This study focuses on relations between political decentralization and economic development in Japan.The main research results are two-volumes collection of English documents on local government reforms during the Allied occupation. The documents of Government Section, GHQ/SCAP are collected and edited with an introduction of editor. Volume I covers from 1945 to 1948 including such topics as abolition of the Regional Governor-General, introduction of elected governor system, local elections and the abolition of Tonari-gumi, enactment and revisions of Local Autonomy Law and abolition of local branch offices. Volume II covers from 1948 to 1952 including such topics as information plan for Local Autonomy Law, issues on local finance, issues on local government and local public servant law. An article titled Local Tax Reform in 1950 analyzes the changing relations between occupation authorities and Japanese government. The paper was written mainly using documents from volume II above.