抄録
In this paper, I regard the period from 1960 to 1965, when sugar production recovered to the prewar level
after the war in Okinawa, as the reconstruction period of sugar industry, and research what kind of people were
responsible for the operation of the sugar factory increasing rapidly during this period. We will consider whether it was done by paying attention to the engineers of the sugar factory which started running in early 1960s. In recent years, while the focus has been on sugar industry engineers and skilled workers in the history of modern imperial Japanese sugar industry, it is not yet in the history of postwar Okinawa. Studies on sugar industry in postwar Okinawa have focused on the sugar economy of Okinawa society and farmer household, and percentage of capital structure of sugar company. Therefore, these have overlooked or not concerned about engineers.
This paper clarify that the sugar factory actual sites were carried out by skilled workers who had experience
in sugar factories in the prewar Micronesia, Taiwan, and the postwar Minamidaito Island by analyzing engineers
in Hokubu Seito sugar corporation, which started in1960 at northern part of Okinawa Island. The former
skilled workers of Nanyo Kohatsu sugar factory in Micronesia have obtained sugar production skills by OJT and
studied in advanced vocational school for sugar engineering of the corporation, and after war and repatriation,
found a job in Hokubu Seito. Workers from Daito Togyo factory in Minamidaito Island which started to run in
1951, moved to Hokubu Seito, who could use the network of Izena and Iheya islands. It can be said that the Okinawa sugar industry was revived by the smooth operation of the sugar factory started by their skilled worker
technological capabilities, and that the engineers from two Japanese south expansion places were familiar with
the people, who had formed their "Imperial careering" in Taiwan and contributed to the reconstruction of postwar Okinawa society.
