Student settlement

Japanese: 学生セツルメント - がくせいせつるめんと

...The student federation, led by the Shinjinkai, worked to popularize social sciences, held its first national convention in September 1924, and changed its name to the Student Social Sciences Association (Gakuren) (by November, it had 53 schools and 1,600 members). During this time, after the Great Kanto Earthquake, student settlement movements marked a period, including the Imperial University Settlement (established at Honjo Yanagishima at the end of 1923) and the Tokyo University of Commerce S.P.S. (established at Shibakoen after the earthquake, and later at Osaki in Tokyo Prefecture). Militarism gradually spread to universities, and incidents such as the Waseda Military Education Incident (May 1923) and the Otaru Commercial High School Incident (October 1925) occurred, and anti-military movements were on the rise in universities and high schools across the country. ...

From [Settlement]

...In Japan, the oldest are the Okayama Hakuaikai, which was established in 1691 by Christian missionary O. Adams, and Kingsley Hall, which was established in 1697 by Katayama Sen in Kanda, Tokyo. There are various trends in settlement activities, but the first is university settlement or student settlement. As with Toynbee Hall mentioned above, the method in which university people (intellectuals) act as settlers is called the university colonization project or university expansion movement. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "student settlement" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…学連は新人会を盟主として社会科学の普及に努め，24年9月には第1回全国大会を開き，その名称を〈学生社会科学連合会〉(学連)と改めた(11月には53校，会員1600名)。この間，関東大震災後には帝大セツルメント(1923年暮れ本所柳島に設置)，東京商大のS･P･S(震災後芝公園，のち東京府下大崎に設置)など学生セツルメントの運動が一時期を画した。また，軍国主義化はしだいに大学にも及ぶにいたり，早稲田軍教事件(1923.5)，小樽高商事件(1925.10)などが起こり，全国の大学･高校で反軍運動が高まっていた。…

【セツルメント】より

…日本では，91年にキリスト教宣教師O.アダムズがつくった岡山博愛会，あるいは片山潜が97年に東京神田に設立したキングスレー館などが古い。　セツルメント活動にはいろいろの流れがあるが，その第1は大学セツルメント，あるいは学生セツルメントである。上記したトインビー･ホールがそうであるように，大学人(知識人)がセツラーとなって活動を行うというやり方は，大学植民事業とか大学拡張運動とかいわれている。…

※「学生セツルメント」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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