Western Economics and Public Finance in Late-Tokugawa and Meiji Japan : Compilation of Database

本研究的目的是建立一个数据库，收集德川后期（19世纪50年代至60年代）和明治时期（1868年至1912年）在日本介绍和推广欧美经济金融思想时使用的日文译本，并提供详细的书目信息（译者、出版年份、出版商等）。以及原作的信息。该数据库基于Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Zosho Mokuroku：Meiji-ki[国立国会图书馆目录：明治时期]。从各图书馆目录和专著及其他研究成果中提取的有关文件的信息也被添加到数据库中。截至本研究结束的2011年度末，数据库收录的文献总数为2843篇。本研究的结果为学生、研究人员和其他对此领域感兴趣的人士提供了一个重要的资源，展示了德川后期和明治日本引进西方经济学和公共财政学对日本现代化所起的巨大作用。我出版了《明治日本经济学》、《西方起源文集》（由关西学院大学井上拓俊教授选编并作介绍）、《皮克林与查托》第一部分（8卷）、第二部分（8卷），第三部分（8卷），2009-2012.

The purpose of this study is to organize a database of Japanese translations used in the introduction and promotion in Japan of economic and financial thought from Europe and the United States during the late-Tokugawa period(1850s to 1860s) and Meiji era(1868-1912), with bibliographic details(translator[s], year of publication, publisher, etc.) as well as information on the original works. The database is based on Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan zosho mokuroku : Meiji-ki[The National Diet Library Catalog : Meiji Period]. Information on relevant documents extracted from the catalogs of various libraries and from monographs and other research output was also added to the database. The total number of documents cataloged in the database as of the end of fiscal 2011, when this study was finished, is 2, 843.The results of this research make available to students, researchers, and others interested in this field, a significant body of resources showing the enormous role the introduction of Western economics and public finance to late-Tokugawa and Meiji Japan played in Japan's modernization. I have published Economics in Meiji Japan, Collected Works of Western Origin(selected and with an introduction by Prof. Takutoshi Inoue, Kwansei Gakuin University), Pickering & Chatto, PartI(8 vols.), PartII(8 vols.), PartIII(8 vols.), 2009-2012.