ABSTRACT

Building on the concept of framing, this study analyzes the use of budgets by the Extraordinary Defense Corps, a unit of the Japanese Imperial Navy deployed to govern Micronesia during and immediately after World War I. A comparison of the use of budgets by the Defense Corps and the South Seas Agency, the civil authority that succeeded the Defense Corps as the territory’s governing body in 1922 pursuant to the granting of the South Pacific Mandate to Japan, reveals that the idiosyncratic budgetary practices of the Defense Corps were profoundly influenced by the institutional context in which the organization operated. In contrast to the practice of the South Seas Agency, budgeting under the Defense Corps was highly flexible, with little concern for spending limits. The primacy of promoting infrastructure formation and industrial development within the territory, as represented by sugar production, is apparent. As this study confirms, the flexible budgeting practiced by the Defense Corps provided an essential socio-economic institutional foundation for the subsequent governance of the South Seas Agency.

摘要

本研究以框架的概念为基础，分析了第一次世界大战期间和之后立即部署管理密克罗尼西亚的日本帝国海军部队特别防卫队的预算使用情况。 国防军预算使用情况的比较1922 年，日本将南太平洋任务授权给日本后，继国防军成为领土管理机构的民政当局南海局揭示，国防军的特殊预算做法深受体制背景的影响。该组织在其中运作。与南海局的做法相反，国防军的预算非常灵活，几乎不关心支出限制。以食糖生产为代表的促进境内基础设施建设和工业发展的首要任务是显而易见的。正如这项研究证实的那样，国防军实行的灵活预算为南海局的后续治理提供了重要的社会经济制度基础。