日本学術振興会研究費と科学研究費交付金の分野別割合にみる戦時と戦後の連続性

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  • The Continuity Between World War II and the Postwar Period : Grant Distribution by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Subsidiary Fund for Scientific Research
  • ニホン ガクジュツ シンコウカイ ケンキュウヒ ト カガク ケンキュウヒ コウフキン ノ ブンヤベツ ワリアイ ニ ミル センジ ト センゴ ノ レンゾクセイ

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This paper analyzes the distribution of the Subsidiary Fund for Scientific Research, a predecessor to the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), which operated in Japan from the 1930s to 1950s. It reveals that the Japanese government maintained this wide-ranging promotion system since its establishment during the war until well into the postwar period. Previous studies insist that, at the end of the war, the Japanese government generally only funded the research that it considered immediately and practically useful. In contrast to this general perception, my analysis illustrates that both before and after the war, funding was allotted to four research areas: natural science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine. In order to illuminate this continuity, I compare the Subsidiary Fund with another research fund existing from 1933 to 1947: the Grant of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The comparison demonstrates that the JSPS received externally raised capital from the military and munitions companies. However, while this group focused upon engineering and military-related research as the war dragged on, the Subsidiary Fund has consistently entrusted scientists with the authority to decide the allocation of financial support.

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  • 科学史研究

    科学史研究 53 (272), 379-, 2015

    日本科学史学会

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