Abstract
Although national land development, the main field of civil engineering, is a national endeavor, each project plan is considered individually, and the adoption of comprehensive and long-term perspectives have become less and less common over time. Furthermore, the impact on national land development of the sense of solidarity and will for national development that exists among engineers and citizens are rarely taken into consideration. This study will examine the form in which the above-mentioned elements became the basic conditions for national land development by Japanese references, focusing on the development of Manchuria during the Empire of Japan, the time in modern Japanese history when active development took place as well as the Meiji period and the postwar reconstruction period.
