山岡順太郎と住宅経営論

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This report will show that Juntaro Yamaokas' concept of housing management which played the large part and he made various contributions to the business world in Osaka and in the modernizing of Japanese residential areas in the early twentieth century. He enthusiastically conducted a campain to better the houses through Osaka Jutaku Keiei Co. Ltd. What is more, he provided office workers with cheaper houses, which lightened the burden to them through Osaka Tennoji Tochi Co. Ltd., Bisho Tochi Co. Ltd. as well as Osaka Jutaku Keiei Co. Ltd. This shows that Yamaoka carried out his concept of housing management as social work to satisfy the middle classes', especially office workers' standards. The concept, which he insisted on, was consciously based on the British system of housing developement.