Outline

Our lab launched an international collaborative project with Taiwanese and Korean scholars in October 2020. The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science financially supports our project by supplying funds for the promotion of joint international research (fostering joint international research (B)) from October 2020 to March 2024. The proposal and research outcomes of this project are as follows.

Proposal and the Role of International Collaborators

This project investigates the transformation of colonial trade to capture how the interdependent structure of economies in the metropole and colonies was formed in Japan before the Second World War.
　　
　　The previous literature on Japanese colonial trade and economy did not reveal the following two points: (1) a cyclical structure in which the expansion of colonial trade and the transformation of commodity markets mutually affected each other in Japan and its colonies, and (2) the dynamic transformation process of the network structure of the Japanese colonial trade. Consequently, it did not demonstrate why the colonies supplied primary commodities to the metropole in Japan before the Second World War. This supply of primary commodities promoted the rapid growth in the Japanese economy. Therefore, the reason for the increase in Japanese colonial trade needs to be investigated.

　　We explore the factors of growth in Japanese colonial trade using the following two procedures. First, we examine the interdependent relationship between the expansion of commodity trading and the transformation of markets in the metropole and colonies of Japan. Second, we detect the political factors of growth in colonial trade and trading between the Japanese colonies. These research plans require Japanese scholars to obtain academic assistance from overseas scholars.

　　The participants of this project should investigate historical documents found in research institutes and archives in Taiwan and Korea. Taiwanese and Korean scholars are conversant with historical documents in the former Japanese colonies and research trends in the history of Taiwanese and Korean economies. Accordingly, this project is implemented as an international collaboration between Japan, Taiwan, and Korea to demonstrate the structure of the Japan Empire's economy before the Second World War.

Members

• Principal Investigator

Associate Prof.

Kiyotaka Maeda

Faculty of Letters, Keio University

• Co-Investigators

Prof.	Shigehiko Ioku	Faculty of Letters, Keio University
Prof.	Hideyoshi Yagashiro	Faculty of Economics, Senshu University
Associate Prof.	Yu Yamamoto	Faculty of Economics, Dokkyo University
Associate Prof.	Masanobu Mishina	Faculty of Economics, Shimonoseki City University

• International Collaborators

Prof.	Lung-Pao Tsai	College of Humanities, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Prof.	Jinseok Oh	School of Public Administration, Pai Chai University, Korea
Associate Prof.	Myungsoo Kim	College of Humanities and International Studies, Keimyung University, Korea
Associate Prof.	Howard Kahm	Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Korea

Research Outcomes

• Publications

Author	Kiyotaka Maeda
Title (JPN)	日露戦後日本の政府介入と超過需要： 　VAR・VECモデルによる専売制度下食塩市場の分析
Title (ENG)	Government interventions and excessive demand in Japan after the Russo-Japanese War: 　An analysis of the salt market under the monopoly system by using VAR and VEC models
Journal (JPN)	史学
Journal (ENG)	The Historical Science
Vol. & No.	89(4)
Pub. Date	March 2021
Pages	1-40
Language	Japanese
Review	Non-refereed

Author	Kiyotaka Maeda
Title (JPN)	発酵
Title (ENG)	Fermentation
Book Title (JPN)	社会経済史学辞典
Book Title (ENG)	Dictionary of Socio-Economic History
Publisher	Maruzen Shuppan: Tokyo
Pub. Date	2021 (forthcoming)
Pages	In press
Language	Japanese
Review	Non-refereed

Author	Kiyotaka Maeda
Title (JPN)	日清・日露戦争
Title (ENG)	First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War
Book Title (JPN)	社会経済史学辞典
Book Title (ENG)	Dictionary of Socio-Economic History
Publisher	Maruzen Shuppan: Tokyo
Pub. Date	2021 (forthcoming)
Pages	In press
Language	Japanese
Review	Non-refereed

Author	Kiyotaka Maeda
Title	Market-based financing for small corporations during early industrialisation: 　The case of salt corporations in Japan, 1880s-1910s
Journal	Business History
Vol. & No.	In press
Pub. Date	2020 (forthcoming / online available)
Pages	In press
Language	English
Review	Refereed

Author	Kiyotaka Maeda
Title (JPN)	帝国日本の台湾・関東州塩需給と流通主体： 　1890-1910年代を中心に
Title (ENG)	Supply and demand of salt from Taiwan and Kwantung leased territory and its distributor in Imperial Japan
Journal (JPN)	史学
Journal (ENG)	The Historical Science
Vol. & No.	89(3)
Pub. Date	December 2020
Pages	83-136
Language	Japanese
Review	Non-refereed

• Organized Seminars & Session

Organizer	Kiyotaka Maeda
Session Title	Web of Ties: Supply and Circulation of Colonial Resources in Early 20th Century East Asia
Conference	19th World Economic History Congress in Paris
Date	July 2022 (accepted)
Venue	The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Language	English

Organizer	Kiyotaka Maeda and Lung-Pao Tsai
Session Title	Colonial Resources in Early 20th Century East Asia
Seminar	The International Conference on Economic History
Host	College of Humanities, National Taipei University
Date	July 2021 (scheduled)
Venue	Sanxia Campus, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Language	English

• Presentation

Author	Kiyotaka Maeda
Title (JPN)	日露戦後日本の政府介入と超過需要： 　専売制度下食塩市場の分析
Title (ENG)	Government interventions and excessive demand in Japan after the Russo-Japanese War: An analysis of the salt market under the monopoly system
Seminar (JPN)	第99回経済史研究会
Seminar (ENG)	99th Economic History Conference
Host	Institute for Research in Economic History of Japan, Osaka University of Economics
Date	October 17 2020
Venue	Online
Language	Japanese