Kyoroten - Kyoroten

...For about ten years from 1898, the Chief Civil Administrator Goto Shinpei, under the fourth Governor-General Kodama Gentaro, used both the carrot and the stick to govern with skill. He executed anti-Japanese guerrillas without question by using the "Bandit Punishment Order," while trying to appease the landowning gentry and gentlemen by offering them "Kyoro-den" (a gathering of senior citizens for banquets and sweets) and "Yobun-kai" (a gathering where gentry, gentlemen, and Confucian scholars recite Chinese poetry), and encouraging them to wear the Gentleman's Medal (a type of medal). While establishing public order, Goto appointed Nitobe Inazo as Director-General of the Industrial Bureau and promoted the sugar industry. ...

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…98年以降約10年間，民政長官後藤新平は第4代総督児玉源太郎のもとで，あめとむちを併用した辣腕政治を行った。〈匪徒刑罰令〉を行使して抗日ゲリラを問答無用で刑死に追い込む一方，地主士紳層には〈饗老典〉(耆老を集め酒宴や菓銭を供与)，〈揚文会〉(漢詩を士紳儒者らと吟じる会)を開催し，紳章(一種の勲章)の佩帯をすすめるなどのあめをしゃぶらせて懐柔を試みた。治安の確立と並行しながら，後藤は新渡戸稲造（にとべいなぞう）を殖産局長に迎え，糖業を振興する。…

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