The University of Tokyo Empire Settlement began as a trigger from the Great Kanto Earthquake

Review from the viewpoint of intergenerational exchange

Abstract

Due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, faculty members and students from the Tokyo Imperial University conducted settlement movements aimed at relieving the poverty of local residents for the purpose of raising labor awareness and cultural awareness from the late Taisho period to the early Showa period. These activities have been discussed from the aspects of political science, economics and social welfare. In this research, we reviewed this settlement from a perspective of intergenerational exchange and reconsidered social contributions connected by students engaged in settlement from the mutual relevance with today's student volunteers. As a result, student volunteers have the same significance in terms of social contribution, however the social contribution made by students engaged in the Tokyo Imperial University settlement along with Dr. Hozumi, and Dr. Suehiro showed different trends in terms of the field of knowledge and social survey compared to today’s volunteer students. The Tokyo Imperial University students worked to give knowledge to the community rather than communicating knowledge. Nowadays volunteer students learn from the community due to the differences in the background of the time periods. We examined adding a new viewpoint of intergenerational exchange to the community symbiosis and in the cooperation of the community.