Ohara Institute for Social Research - Ohara Institute for Social Research

This private academic research institute was established in Osaka in 1919 (Taisho 8) by Ohara Magosaburo, president of Kurashiki Spinning Co., Ltd. Ohara trusted Takano Iwasaburo, the first director, and entrusted him with all aspects of the institute's operations. Under Takano, Kushida Tamizo, Ouchi Hyoe, Morito Tatsuo, and Kuruma Samezo became members of the institute, and they carried out academic research into social issues. They also made an effort to collect domestic and foreign literature, including rare books such as "Das Kapital" signed by Marx, and materials related to labor-farmer organizations for the compilation of the "Japanese Labor Yearbook" (first published in 1920), which is still in publication today. Due to financial difficulties, the institute moved to Tokyo in 1937 (Showa 12), and lost about 60,000 books in air raids during World War II. Fortunately, the valuable books and original materials survived, and were transferred to Hosei University in 1949 (Showa 24), where the library was rebuilt.

The museum continued to collect materials after the war, storing union materials from the Industrial Federation Conference and the Toshiba Labor Union, as well as materials on the May Day Incident and the Matsukawa Incident. In addition to conducting research on labor and social issues, it has also been reprinting and publishing the journals of social movement groups since 1969, based on original materials stored before the war. In 1995, it published "A Chronology of the Social and Labor Movement," and in 1999, "100 Years of Japanese Labor Unions."

[Umeda Toshihide]

"Hosei University Ohara Institute for Social Research, edited and published: 50 Year History of the Ohara Institute for Social Research (1970)" ▽ "Hosei University, edited and published: 100 Year History of Hosei University (1980)" ▽ "Hosei University Ohara Institute for Social Research, edited: Chronology of the Social and Labor Movement (1995, Labor Junposha)" ▽ "Hosei University Ohara Institute for Social Research, edited: 100 Years of Japanese Labor Unions (1999, Junposha)"

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1919年（大正8）倉敷(くらしき)紡績社長大原孫三郎(まごさぶろう)によって大阪に設立された民間学術研究所。大原は、初代所長高野岩三郎(たかのいわさぶろう)を信頼して研究所運営のいっさいをまかせたという。高野のもとに櫛田民蔵(くしだたみぞう)、大内兵衛(ひょうえ)、森戸辰男(たつお)、久留間鮫造(くるまさめぞう)らが所員となり、社会問題を学問的に研究した。内外の文献の収集にも努め、マルクス自署のある『資本論』などの稀覯(きこう)書や現在も刊行中の『日本労働年鑑』（1920創刊）作成のため労農団体の関係資料も収集した。財政難のため37年（昭和12）に東京に移転し、第二次世界大戦のとき空襲で約6万冊の蔵書を失った。幸い貴重書と原資料は残り、49年（昭和24）に法政大学に移管されて再建された。

　戦後も資料収集に努め、産別会議、東芝労連などの組合資料や、メーデー事件、松川事件などの資料も収蔵した。労働・社会問題の調査研究と同時に、戦前に収蔵された原資料をもとに、1969年以来、社会運動団体の機関紙誌類の復刻刊行も行っている。1995年には『社会・労働運動大年表』、1999年には『日本の労働組合100年』を刊行した。

［梅田俊英］

『法政大学大原社会問題研究所編・刊『大原社会問題研究所五十年史』（1970）』▽『法政大学編・刊『法政大学百年史』（1980）』▽『法政大学大原社会問題研究所編『社会・労働運動大年表』（1995・労働旬報社）』▽『法政大学大原社会問題研究所編『日本の労働組合100年』（1999・旬報社）』

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