Japanese salt manufacturers' business expansion into Taiwan and the Kwantung Leased Territory in the prewar period

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  • MAEDA Kiyotaka
    慶應義塾大学大学院経済学研究科博士課程:日本学術振興会

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  • 戦前期台湾・関東州製塩業における日系資本の進出過程 : 野崎家と大日本塩業株式会社を中心に
  • センゼンキ タイワン ・ カントウシュウ セイエンギョウ ニ オケル ニッケイ シホン ノ シンシュツ カテイ : ノザキカ ト ダイニホンエンギョウ カブシキ ガイシャ オ チュウシン ニ

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This paper aims to elucidate the process by which salt manufacturers in the Japanese sphere of influence began to fill the role of raw material suppliers to the home islands of Japan. Until World War I, salt manufacturers in the Japanese colonies were not formally established as raw material suppliers; in fact, the Japanese salt manufacturers' business expansion and deployment in these colonies occurred in a later period, responding to structural changes in the domestic salt market prompted by the introduction of the salt monopoly system in 1905. After the outbreak of WWI, demand for salt rapidly increased in Japan, leading to a change in the monopoly policy. Consequently, the salt industry in the Japanese colonies gradually filled the role of raw material suppliers to Japan's domestic regions. At the same time, domestic Japanese buyers of salt began to expand their business into the Japanese colonies for selfprocurement. Therefore, this paper suggests that Japanese salt manufacturers' motivations for business expansion into the colonial regions changed during the WWI period in parallel with the growing importance of raw materials to the nation.

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