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Abstract
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Research regarding Japanese archaeological history up until now has been
advanced with a central focus on investigation and research in the Japanese
archipelago (the naichi [“domestic territory”] or Japan proper.) Meanwhile,
archaeological research in the gaichi (“overseas territories”)—areas outside
the Japanese archipelago that were temporarily made territories of
Japan—has hardly been taken up as a matter of consideration. This paper,
taking archaeological history to be a part of modern Japanese history, summarizes
the significance of research in the overseas territories.
The “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” was a concept that came
to be espoused in 1932 for the sake of establishing the framework for a
new order in East Asia, and throughout East Asia there was archaeological
research carried out in connection with the policy. Following the annexation
of Korea in 1910, the post of Governor-General was established on
the Korean Peninsula, and research was conducted throughout the region,
with research locations established in Pyongyang, Gyeongju and Buyeo
under the Government-General Museum of Chosen. Research on Han dynasty
tombs in the Lelang region is specially noted.
With the establishment in 1932 of Manchukuo in northeastern China,
the Far-Eastern Archaeological Society, organized in Japan proper, independently
carried out archaeological research. The northern region
of China was called Hokushi (“North China”), and the Far-Eastern
Archaeological Society took on research in this region as well, researching
sites that included Han dynasty tombs and the Yungang Grottoes. In the
southern region of China, research on matters such as artifacts excavated
at Yinxu in the Nanjing area was carried out by Japanese scholars as well.
That is to say, in the early Showa period (1926–1945), following
the Sino-Japanese war that began in 1937, archaeological research was
conducted primarily by Japanese official scholars in colonies that were
occupied under the framework of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere; and this point is verifiable as a characteristic feature in the archaeological
history of the era.
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