History Research Society

Japanese: 歴史学研究会 - れきしがくけんきゅうかい

A private academic research organization in history. Its predecessor was the Kogokai, which was formed in February 1931. In December 1957, a group of young researchers, mainly from the Department of History at the University of Tokyo, who were dissatisfied with the authoritarian tendencies of previous academic societies amid the reactionary currents immediately following the Manchurian Incident, founded the organization as a way to conduct historical research from a progressive and modern standpoint, and to promote relaxed research and friendship. Its journal, Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Rekishigaku Kenkyu), was first published in November 1958. The organization was active in research activities in the 1930s, and continued to conduct conscientious academic research under fascism, but with the intensification of the war and increased oppression, it ceased all activities in 1944, and also suspended publication of its journal.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

歴史学に関する民間の学術研究団体。前身は1931年2月に結成された庚午会。32年12月，東京大学の史学科を中心とする若手研究者たちが，満州事変直後の反動的潮流の中で，従来の学会の権威主義的傾向に飽きたらず，進歩的，近代的立場の歴史研究をめざして緩やかな研究と親睦をかねて創立した。機関誌《歴史学研究》は33年11月創刊された。1930年代に活発な研究活動を行い，ファシズム下に良心的な学術研究活動をつづけたが，戦争の激化，弾圧の強化にともない44年全活動を停止し，機関誌も休刊した。

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