A Comparative Study on Japanese and American Colonial Policies

日美殖民政策比较研究

• 批准号: 15520389
• 负责人: OKAMOTO Koichi
• 金额: $ 1.73万
• 依托单位: Waseda University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2003 至 2006
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-15520389/
• 关键词: Modern Japanese history; Colonialism; Taiwan; Korea; The Philippine Islands; The United States of America; Constitutionalism; Comparative history; 植民地統治; コロニアリズム

This research project is intended to a comparative study on Japanese and American colonialism and colonial policies, based upon recent works on colonial/post-colonial studies in each national framework. Initially, while keeping Japanese colonial rule over Taiwan and Korea in mind, I investigated American colonial policy toward the Philippine Islands. Particularly, I concentrated on collecting and analyzing primary materials and basic works on so-called “Benevolent Assimilation" policy starting in 1898. Through the research, I found that since empirical studies on American colonial rule over the Philippines needed to be developed, I focused more on collecting basic data on bureaucracy in the U. S. colonial administration.Thanks to the intellectual interaction with some representative scholars in the field of American colonialism, including Prof. Paul Kramer, I came to realize that the nature of colonial rule appeared in the bureaucracy within the colonial administration and the legal ap … More plication to their colonies. And “constitutionalism" is a vital parameter for comparing the American colonial policy to the Japanese one. Especially, through the process to establish the American and Japanese colonial administration respectively in the Philippines and Twain, I conduct a thorough investigation on constitutional background of colonial policy. At the same time, I tried to situate Japanese colonial policy in an international historical context. As a tentative conclusion, I argue that American and Japanese colonial policies are the product of the historical stage of late 19th and early 20 century. The commonalities of both colonialisms indicate that they were in a new international historical phase. Therefore, the analysis requires an transnational framework, which is hardly found in the existing studies.I was on a sabbatical leave from the academic year of 2007 to 2008. While being a visiting scholar at the Harvard's Yenching Institute, I was able to finish a book-length manuscript of this study. Less

本研究项目旨在基于每个国家框架内的殖民/后殖民研究的最新著作，对日本和美国的殖民主义和殖民政策进行比较研究。最初，我在考虑日本对台湾和韩国的殖民统治的同时进行了调查。尤其是美国对菲律宾群岛的殖民政策，我集中精力收集和分析了1898年开始的所谓“仁慈同化”政策的原始资料和基础著作。菲律宾由于需要发展，我更注重收集美国殖民行政管理官僚机构的基本资料。通过与保罗·克莱默教授等美国殖民主义领域的一些代表性学者的学术交流，我逐渐认识到，殖民统治出现在殖民行政机构内部的官僚机构以及对殖民地的法律适用中，而“宪政”是比较美国殖民政策与日本殖民政策的一个重要参数，尤其是在美国建立过程中。笔者分别对菲律宾和吐温的殖民统治进行了深入的考察，同时试图将日本的殖民政策置于国际历史背景中，作为一个初步的结论。日本和日本的殖民政策都是19世纪末20世纪初历史阶段的产物，两国殖民主义的共同点表明它们都处于新的国际历史阶段，因此分析需要一个跨国框架，而这在国际框架中是很难找到的。现有的研究。 2007年至2008学年我正在休假。作为哈佛大学燕京学社的访问学者，我完成了这项研究的一本书的手稿。