明治期アメリカ合衆国への日本人移民 (世界資本主義とアジアの移民 : 一九世紀後半から二十世紀初頭)

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Broadly speaking, Japanese emigrants had two courses in the Meiji era. One emigrated to the New Continent, another to the Japanese colonies such as China, Korea and so on. In this article, I deal with Japanese emigration to U.S.A that was the main current of the former from the time of the start of Government contract emigration for Hawaii (1885) till the time of the conclusion of the Gentlemen's Agreement between Japan and U.S.A (1908). The fault common to the traditional ways of the studies of the emigration is that they omitted the economic historical analysis of the background of the emigration, so that, in this article, I concentrate on the analysis of the social and economic base of the emigration in the period of the Industrial Revolution in Japan, and deal with the policy of the emigration both in Japan and U.S.A. And so, dividing the peliod into two parts, I deal with the changes of the charactaristics, the actual condition and the bases in both parts. I choose Hiroshima prefecture that had the most emigrants in Japan at the period as the material of the analysis. Using the fruits of the studies of the regional history in the time when capitalism in Japan came into existence and established, I analyse the regions that had a lot of emigrants in Hiroshima prefecture and try to approach to the history of emigration.
社会経済史学会の論文
1981-12-20