| 英文摘要 |
Following the Russo-Japanese War, Japan established the Office of the Governor-General of Kwantung and the South Manchuria Railway Company (hereafter, SMR) to consolidate the gains in the Kwantung Leased Territory and the South Manchuria Railway Zone acquired under the Treaty of Portsmouth. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also established consular offices in the open cities of“Manchuria.”However, substantial disagreements arose among these three major institutions over the implementation of Japan’s policy toward“Manchuria,”giving rise to what became known as the problem of the“tripartite administration of Manchuria.”During his tenure, Oshima Yoshimasa, a native of Choshu and the first Governor-General of Kwantung, inherited and further developed Goto Shinpei’s vision of integrating the institutions responsible for administering“Manchuria.”Through measures such as concentrating police authority and the power to conduct diplomatic negotiations in the Office of the Governor-General of Kwantung, he promoted the administrative unification of“Manchuria.”As administrative authority over“Manchuria”was gradually consolidated under the Office of the Governor-General of Kwantung, the Japanese Army, dominated by Oshima Yoshimasa and other members of the“Choshu clique,”steadily increased its influence over national policy-making in the final years of the Meiji period. |