Article
Global History and Local Historical Materials: A Quest from Akita Prefecture on the International Past of the Tohoku Region
Journal of the Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration Akita International University
(2019)
Abstract
When considering the modernization of prewar Japan, the perspective of Tohoku region history tends to be lacking. However, it should not be overlooked that people from the Tohoku region have made significant contributions to the various types of mobility that characterize the development of modern Japan, such as settlement in Hokkaido, migration across the Pacific Ocean, and colonization of various parts of the empire. The Akita Prefectural Office holds a lot of historical materials on the connection between the Tohoku region and the world for each of these three types of mobility. The author conducted a two-week survey in Japan in the summer of 2018 to incorporate it into the "Tōhoku Unbounded" (tentative title), which is currently being written as a single book, and these resources that have not yet been sufficiently hunted. We have begun investigating historical materials. This paper is a brief summary of the historical materials, library materials, and other valuable historical materials that the author confirmed in the survey in Akita City. Eventually, I plan to incorporate these historical materials into my book, position Akita at the core of the complex mobility network inside and outside Japan, and raise doubts about the stereotype of Tohoku's closure. is there.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2019
DOI
10.24687/iasrc.8.0_21
Citation Information
Anne Giblin Gedacht. "Global History and Local Historical Materials: A Quest from Akita Prefecture on the International Past of the Tohoku Region" Journal of the Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration Akita International University Vol. 8 (2019) p. 21 - 30 ISSN: 2189-5554 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/anne-giblingedacht/2/