Department of Economics

Michiya Kato

  (加藤 道也)

Profile Information

Affiliation
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics, Osaka Sangyo University
Degree
BA in Economics,(Keio University)
学士 (経済学)(慶応義塾大学)
MA in Economics (Economic Policy),(Keio University)
修士 [経済学 (経済政策専攻) ](慶應義塾大学)
PhD in Economic History,(University of Birmingham (UK))
PhD in Economic History (経済史博士)(University of Birmingham (英国バーミンガム大学))

Researcher number
80389973
J-GLOBAL ID
200901031100278627
researchmap Member ID
5000082984

Papers

 18
  • Michiya KATO
    Osaka Sangyo University Journal of Economics, 23(2) 85-111, Mar, 2022  Peer-reviewed
    After graduating from Sapporo Agricultural School, KOMAI Tokuzo joined South Manchurian Railway Co., Ltd. and was assigned to the Regional Department. He actively engaged in several investigative studies of Manchuria. As the first Director of the General Affairs Agency of Manchukuo, he played a key role in the early governance of the 'colony' after the Manchurian Incident. One finds suggestions for Japan's continental policy in reports based on surveys during his tenure and autobiographical writings published after retirement. This paper examines KOMAI's writings and attempts to clarify the perceptions of colonial rule held by Japanese bureaucrats.
  • Michiya KATO
    Osaka Sangyo University Journal of Economics, 22(1) 35-60, Oct, 2020  Peer-reviewed
    OUCHI Ushinosuke, a Graduate of Shule des Vereins für deutsche Wissenschaften, (The German Studies Society School) held several key Bureaucratic Positions in Colonial Taiwan and Kwanto Leased Territory with GOTO Shimpei. He wrote numerous Books and Reports on Japanese Colonial Rule and his Opinions of how it should be conducted. This Paper examines OUCHI's Writings and attempts at clarifying the Perceptions of Colonial Rule held by Japanese Bureaucrats and its Reality in Prewar Japan.
  • Michiya KATO
    Osaka Sangyo University Journal of Economics, 21(2・3) 1-28, Jul, 2020  Peer-reviewed
    The Japanese Colonial Bureaucrat, YOSHIMURA Gentaro, who worked for the Colonial Bureau established in 1917, wrote numerous Reports on the British Colonial Policy. In one of his Reports entitled, ''Eiteikoku no Toitsu Mondai'' (Problems of British Imperial Unity), he researched the situation of the British Empire and the Debates concerning the Relation between the Britain and her Dominions. This Paper aims to clarify how he understood the British Empire and the Governance of Dominions.
  • Michiya KATO
    Osaka Sangyo University Journal of Economics, 21(1) 1-30, Oct, 2019  Peer-reviewed
    YOSHIMURA Gentaro, who was in charge of the Japanese Colonial Policy at the Government General of Kwantung Leased Territory in the prewar period. After retiring from his post, he wrote Nan'a renpo-ron (A Study of the Union of South Africa) and in it, he analyzed the British colonia policy and its effects from the historical perspective. By a perusal of YOSHIMURA's work, this paper attempts to clarify how he understood British rule and governance of South Africa.
  • Michiya KATO
    Osaka Sangyo University Journal of Economics, 19(2) 25-57, Mar, 2018  Peer-reviewed
    YOSHIMURA Gentaro was a colonial bureaucrat who was engaged in the Colonial Bureau after he had retired from the Japanese Government Bureau of Kwantung Leased Teritory. He published two reports on the independence movement in Colonial India. In these reports, he criticized not only the British rule in India but also the extremists in the independence movement and insisted that Home Rule was the most preferable answer for both British Empire and Colonial India although he had a very pessimistic view on it.

Misc.

 3
  • KATO Michiya
    Eire, 40 142-144, Mar, 2021  
    Prewar Japanese colonial bureaucrats referred to British colonial rule in order to gain "practical wisdom" to help Japanese colonial rule. They saw British colonial rule as a kind of "ideal form" that could balance "freedom" and "unification," but Irish rule as a "failure." This is because the "trust" was not established there. Colonial bureaucrats scrutinized the Irish problem as a reference that should be avoided to achieve stable rule in the Japanese Colonies.
  • Michiya KATO
    12(2) 233-234, Feb, 2011  
  • Michiya KATO
    Working Paper Series, Keio-GSEC Project on Frontier CRONOS:Research on Risk Communication and Management based on CRONOS Authoring Tool, No.04(010), Dec, 2004  Invited
    The unemployment insurance system was a representative policy by the industrialized nations of the time against mass unemployment that became a serious problem in the 1920s and 1930s. However, in Japan, it was not established until 1947, and it was thought that Japanese policy makers were not positive about establishing a social security system like the unemployment insurance system. In fact, the Japanese government at the time was cautious about establishing such system because the European countries which had such systems had shown that the unemployment insurance system could lead to a financial crisis. Entrepreneurs opposed to the unemployment insurance system because of a possible negative impact on the labor-management relationship. It is not well known that debates for establishing a compulsory unemployment insurance system like European countries by the progressive bureaucrats of the Social Affairs Bureau. This report focuses on the arguments by such bureaucrats in interwar Japan and emphasizes its significance.

Books and Other Publications

 5
  • Toshihiko MATSUDA (Role: Joint author)
    (Shibunkaku Shuppan), Feb, 2019 (ISBN: 9784784219650)
    This book is a compilation of the results of the research project, "Knowledge and Power in the Japanese Colonial Empire" at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. In a paper entitled ‘The Colonial Bureaucrats’ Recognitions of Colonial Rule: From the Viewpoint of Knowledge and Power’ (pp. 489-522), I analyzed the backgrounds, writings, and reports of the three bureaucrats of Government- General of Taiwan, Japanese Government Bureau of Kwantung Leased Territory, and Government-General of Korea, that is Ushinosuke OUCHI, Gentaro YOSHIMURA, and Urazo TOKINAGA and revealed what kind of knowledge Japan had learned from the colonial rule of Germany and Britain in the prewar period and introduced it for her own colonial rule.
  • Michiya KATO (Role: Editor)
    (Daito City Board of Education), Mar, 2016
    Shoya Documents in Shinden Village are a group of documents derived from Nakajima family who served as a headman at Shinden Village, Matta-gun, Kawachi-koku, and consist of various letters as well as public documents such as Residents Register, Tax Records, etc. It is an extremely valuable document group to know the situation of pre-modern rural areas. Until now, various historical collections and catalogs have been published by the former editors appointed by the Daito City. Succeeding their works, I selected the unpublished historical documents which revealed ‘changing lives in the village’ and ‘the village's regional collaboration with surrounding rural communities’ and explained their significance.
  • Michiya KATO, Hiroshi KITAMI, Shinichi TAKAGAMI (Role: Editor)
    (The Institute for Industrial Research of Osaka Sangyo University), Mar, 2013
    This book is a compilation of research results of the Osaka Sangyo University Joint Research Organization ‘Interdisciplinary Research on Asia's Society, Economy, and Culture’ conducted from 2006 to 2010. As a chief researcher of the organization, I summarized the importance of ‘Building Asian Awareness by Dialogue with the Past’, which is a common recognition of this research, in the ‘Foreword’ (pp.i-ii). I also made it clear, in Chapter 1, a colonial bureaucrat’s view on the Japanese colonial rule. (pp. 1-134)
  • Tsuneyoshi TAKEUCHI (Role: Joint author)
    (Nakanishiya Shuppan), Mar, 2012 (ISBN: 9784779506420)
    In Chapter 5 "A Colonial Bureaucrat's Perception on Asia" (pp. 120-p. 155), I analyzed a colonial bureaucrat’s career and his writings and clarified how he recognized Asia.
  • Takafumi UZUHASHI (Role: Joint author)
    (Nakanishiya Shuppan), Jun, 2009 (ISBN: 9784779503351)
    In Chapter 5, ‘Social Security and Labor Market in Japan’, (pp.85-98), I criticized the structural reform policy under the Koizumi administration because it weakened the social security’s function and worsened the situation of the labor market by the policy.

Research Projects

 2

研究テーマ

 3
  • 研究テーマ(英語)
    戦前期日本における植民地統治政策
    概要(英語)
    :戦前期日本の植民地統治政策について、植民地官僚の統治認識に注目し、イギリスの植民地統治政策と比較しながら分析する。
    研究期間(開始)(英語)
    2005/04/01
  • 研究テーマ(英語)
    戦間期日本における失業政策
    概要(英語)
    :戦間期日本の失業政策を国際比較の中で考察する。
    研究期間(開始)(英語)
    1997/04/01
  • 研究テーマ(英語)
    19世紀イギリス製陶業における労働問題
    概要(英語)
    :19世紀イギリス製陶業の労働問題について、陶工の自伝、労働組合新聞、議会報告書などを用いて生産点およびコミュニティーにおける影響を分析する。
    研究期間(開始)(英語)
    1992/04/01