Shonai Iimmigration in the period of “Manchuria Immigrants” ——Take Daiwa Village for example

Abstract

After"Mukden Incident",Japanese immigration policy changed from"armed immigration"at the first stage to"A-million-in-20-year"immigration policy. Thus,the whole village immigration became an important feature for the"Manchuria immigrants". Two cities and three counties in Shonai area in Yamagata Prefecture were designed to be immigrated as a whole,which was a tremendous huge project called Shonai type of immigration. From immigrants transportation for daiwa village we can see that this type of immigration was in accordance with then Japanese national condition and could solve agricultural crisis. It was in huge scale and had many similar cases. But with regard to the result,this type of immigration had never finished.