社会科学系戦後雑誌小論 : その書誌的考察(1)

The launching of many magazines at the beginning of postwar period shows that Japanese people in those days thirsted for words in print. Above all, lots of magazines of social sciences were started in succession, for people had deep interest in peace, democracy and daily life (food problem etc.) after the ending of World War II. However, most of these magazines were short-lived and moreover they were not presented to university libraries in the confusion of publishing situation of those days. Thus they have become rare books in many cases but they exactly reflect the social phases of the times. Such being the case, these magazines are especially necessary for the study of postwar Japan. In this paper, I examine some of these magazines "Choryu", "Hyoron", "Riron", "Kikanriron" and so on from a viewpoint of bibliography as a preliminary work of historical analysis of postwar Japan

高島善哉の市民社会論(上) : 日本の市民社会論史研究序説

The concept "Civil Society" is a key word in social science of Postwar Japan. For our Japan, starting capitalistic development about one century behind compared with western Europe and America, modernization is only industrialization, not following by formation of "civil Society". The late Prof. Zenya takashima is one of the social scientists who introduced Postwar Japan to concept "Civil Society" and established it. He started its work from examination of Adam Smith\u27s theory of "Civil Society". Adam Smith had yet posed concept of "Sympathy" in his first work\u27s "The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759". Accoding to Adam Smith, concept of "Sympathy". is the most fundamental principle of "civil society". He referd to "commercial society" in his major writings "Wealth of nations, 1776". For Adam Smith, "commercial society" was just "Civil Society" where citizen with "Sympathy" to others had business and relations with

土地改良の負担金問題

The protective policies of agriculture in the Postwar Japan consists of both policies of maintaining a price of agricultural products and subsidy policies for farmers which improves the agrarian structure. The major policy of the former is the system of foods control (Shokkan), and the latter is land improvement enterprise for the large- scale readjustment of arable land. The charges for land improvement enterprise are mostly borne by national treasuries. and they are on the increase from year to year. But the charges of farmers exceed that of the state recently. The charges of farmers for land improvement enterprise are growing remarkablly. This fact forces the farmers to be deprived of investing in the enterprise. A low price of Rice, increasing of part-time farmers and so on prevent small-scale farmings from taking part in the enterprise, which is an obstacle to progress of the agricultural productibity. It seems to me that there is a large contradiction in the protective policies of agriculture; namely, one between policies of maintaining a price of agricultural products and subsidy policies of impoving the agrarian structure. In this papser, though the fieldwork of Ogata-machi in Niigata, we try to examine this point at issue