Why Did People Move to Manchuria ?

Why Did People Move to Manchuria ?: Social Movements in Nagano Prefecture and Immigrants
Shinsuke Kobayashi

186 mm x 130 mm
216 pages 
JPY 2,500 
ISBN 9784790716570
Pub date: March 2015

Poverty is not the only cause of emigration. Nagano Prefecture, which had the highest number of people emigrating both as the members of general pioneer groups and as members of the Volunteer Pioneer Youth Army of Manchuria and Mongolia, also excelled in terms of the vigor of the social movements. This book reexamines the backgrounds of emigrants, which cannot be explained purely by economic factors, applying the perspective to the influence of oppression to social movements and territorial connections.

Points of Appeal

1. Reversed the myth of immigration due to poverty
2. Empirically demonstrated the involvement of education in immigration

Table of Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1: The development of Manchurian agricultural migration and Nagano Prefecture

1 The development of the Manchurian agricultural migration
2 The departure of general settler groups and the economic rehabilitation movement
3 Shinano Kyoiku-kai in Nagano Prefecture’s educational community
4 Summary

Chapter 2 Reexamination of economic factors in the departure of general settler groups

1 Distribution of out-migration and economic indicators
2 Reasons for sending out in the case villages
3 Individual reasons for departure
4 Summary

Chapter 3: The sendout of the youth volunteer corps and the Shinano Kyoiku-kai, educational society

1 Factors in the sending of the youth volunteer army
2 Shinano Kyoiku-kai’s “overseas development” Philosophy
3 The February 4th Incident and the Shinano Kyoiku-kai
4 Summary

Chapter 4: Trajectory of social movements and the sending of immigrants

1 Farmers’ movement and teachers’ movement during the Showa Depression
2 Occurrence and development of the February 4 Incident
3 Correlation between social movements and immigration projects
4 Summary

Conclusion
Afterword/List of references/Index

Reviews
“The significance of the empirical evidence that agricultural migrants crossed the border was not due to ‘poverty,’ nor was it a ‘voluntary’ choice. The significance of this empirical evidence is not confined to the realm of specialized research.” ― Toru Takeda, journalist