The Sino-Japanese Relation on "Economic Cooperation in North China" : With Special Reference to Railway Construction and Exploitation of Resources

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  • 「華北経済提携」をめぐる日中関係 : 鉄道と資源開発を中心に
  • 「華北経済提携」めぐる日中関係--鉄道と資源開発を中心に
  • カホク ケイザイ テイケイ メグル ニッチュウ カンケイ テツドウ ト シゲン

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Abstract

In recent years, the researches on "the Sino-Japanese economic cooperation in North China" in the 1930s have been advanced remarkably, But, these researches have inclined to emphasize the Japanese political details, on the one hand and to neglect the Chinese counterplot, on the other hand. In this paper, by attaching importance to Chinese counterplot toward the Japanese policy, the author attempted to elucidate the reason why Japanese economic advance into North China had not been realized. This paper consists of five sectiions. The first section deals with the purpose of Japanese economic advance into North China, the most important of which was to acquire natural resources -mainly iron and steel- and to construct railway. The second section makes a survey of North China's circumstances in the late 1910s and 1920s. This region had been paid attention by Japanese, who had tried to utilize these exploitation as a means to expand their sphere of influence. In the third section, the author examined the Japanese policy toward America and Europe. In spite of their appeasement policy, the Japanese were reluctant to cooperate with foreign capitals in North China. The forth section deals with "Hopei-Chahar Political Council" -established in 1935- and the fifth section reveals the relations with the Nanking Government. No matter how Nanking Government sought to cooperate with Japan, the Japanese avoided negotiating with them and put pressure on "Hopei-Chahar political Council". Eventually, Japanese object of "Economic Cooperation" was to separate North China from the Nanking Government, and owing to these policy, anti-Japanese movement and centralization in North China prevented her from acquiring natural resources.

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