Relationship Between Government and Merchants during Japanese Colonial System: Hoshi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s Case Study

• Main Authors: Liu Be-Rung, 劉碧蓉
• Other Authors: Hsu Chieh-Lin Ph.D.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79065101862499982278

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 政治學研究所 === 97 === The relationship between government and merchants is a hot-studied topic in political science. From ancient till now, political behavior of human and economic action is closely related, the former is dominant need and cooperate, and the latter is substantial material foundation. The interrelationship between political behavior and economic action is called “relationship between government and merchants”. Historical theories, colonial theories and political economy theories are main approaches used in this study. The integration between politics and economics will be used to study how the precocity colonial empire introduced interrelations between government and enterprises under colonial system, and its influence. Goto Shimpei（後藤新平）as imperial government representer, Hoshi Hajimei（星一）as civil entrepreneur, are both actors pushing Japanese colonial imperial system forward. They are self-benefited, based on their interrelation; their political and economical actions were maximizing their resources. Hoshi hajimei and Hoshi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd’s archive located in Hoshi University, Japanese congress library, National Taiwan University will be used analyzed by normative means such as literature analytic method, case studies method and comparative studies method. Such development and transformation of corporation can be observed how its owner used relationship between government and governor-general, operation organization and interpersonal context of corporation can be help in productions and operations of opium, forestation of Cinchonalederiana, and commercialization of such chemicals. Finally, it will discuss the rise of a pharmaceutical corporation, relationship between Japanese government and merchants, and its role on modern Japan’s external expansion.