学術雑誌論文

本学関連学会

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大阪大学経済学. 2024, 74(1・2・3), p. 1-22

日本語

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2024-12

This paper attempts to provide an overview of the situation of the Ministry of Railways (Tetsudōshō) officials and employees who stayed in Berlin, Germany, in the Inter-war period; mainly from the 1920s to the beginning of the Second World War. My aim is to provide a basis for considering what the Japanese learned from their experiences in Germany, which is one of the main concerns in the study of the history of Japanese-German relations, with regard to the Japanese railway industry (here, the state-owned and state-operated railways) in the first half of the 20th century. Although the ʻBerlin Representative Office of the Ministry of Railways (Tetsudōshō Berlin Jimusho)’ in pre-war Germany is often mentioned in the relevant literature, there have been few studies, including general surveys, on their activity. This paper therefore makes use of contemporaneous departmental journals, official publications and official documents of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to supplement the fragmentary descriptions in the biographies and memoirs of individual Japanese railway employees. A tentative conclusion is that, although Germany’s position as a mentor in the field of engineering with regard to the railway industry was reduced to specific fields in the first half of the 20th century, the interest of individual Japanese railway officials in the organisational management of the new Reichsbahn (German national railway) was high and the persistence of the German experience (and awareness of problems arising from it) was strong among them. After the Second World War, it can be assumed that the influence of the ʻGerman experience’ inherited from their predecessors remained in some of the JNR’s leading personnel, partly in the form of sympathy due to the similarity of a ʻdefeated nation’.

10.18910/98824

98824

戦間期在ベルリン日本人鉄道職員 : 「ドイツ経験」は何をもたらしたか

鴋澤, 歩

大阪大学経済学会・大阪大学大学院経済学研究科

日本語

2024-12

大阪大学経済学

74

1・2・3

1

22

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/98824

10.18910/98824

https://doi.org/10.18910/98824