The "History Information for Japanese Studies" project of the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University has begun to open the database of the 1928 edition of the gentleman's record "Human Resources Koshinroku", which covers the wealthy people in the early Showa period. In the second edition following the 2018 edition of the Taisho era released in 1915, it is possible to grasp the wealthy people at the time when the capitalist economic development of modern Japan and the liberalism represented by the Taisho democracy peaked.
According to Nagoya University, the 1928 edition has 2 males and 5,149 females, for a total of 67.Half of them are office workers, and the total number of corporations listed in the occupation column is about 2. It also reflects the effects of the financial crisis of 5,216 and the results of the universal suffrage of men in the House of Representatives in 2.
It has a full-text search function that allows people who do not know the contents of the personnel information record to search by simply entering the term they want to search.Even if the name is unknown, you can search for the person by searching for the father's name, address, title, etc.Since it is not uncommon for prewar materials to use Chinese characters that cannot be displayed as text data, it has a function to display the original image.
It has become possible to visualize social networks through the relatives of the recorders and to analyze the economic, social, and political situations based on the attributes of the recorders.
Personnel Information Magazine was first published in 1903 during the Meiji era.Information on family members and relatives based on family register surveys, as well as status and occupation, is posted on the top-level people in modern Japan. The information was updated every few years and the editions were repeated, and it was published until 2.
