Sugar in the Society of Modern Japan
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- YAO Keisuke
- Principal Investigator
- 北九州市立大学
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- UENO Akiko
- Research Partners
- 北九州市立自然史歴史博物館
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- YAMAMOTO Choji
- Research Partners
- 佐賀大学
About This Project
- Japan Grant Number
- JP24520766 (JGN)
- Funding Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
- Funding Organization
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Kakenhi Information
- Project/Area Number
- 24520766
- Research Category
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
- Allocation Type
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- Multi-year Fund
- Review Section / Research Field
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- Humanities and Social Sciences > Humanities > History > Japanese history
- Research Institution
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- The University of Kitakyushu
- Project Period (FY)
- 2012-04-01 〜 2015-03-31
- Project Status
- Completed
- Budget Amount*help
- 2,730,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 2,100,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 630,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
I reseached on Portuguese and Netherlands' cookbook of the 16-18th centuries to compare with Japanese cookbook of the Edo period. And I also researched on the materials about sugar distribution from Osaka to Edo in the Edo period. Furthermore, I researched on the microfilms of the former Taiwan Sugar Industrial Association and the the former Governor-General of Taiwan to examine the roles of Taiwan in the development of food culture of sugar i modern Japan. And I researched on several famous confectioners in Taiwan with a collaborator in Taiwan to examine the influnece of Japanese confectioners in the development of confectionery and sugar industries in Taiwan as well as I researched on the newspapers of HOKUZAN KORON to examine the development of the emiglation from Saga Prefecture to Taiwan in modern period. And I also researched on the articles newspapaer MOJI SHINPOU to examine the development of sugar refinery in Moji in modern period.
