The Special and Deposit Library of Co-operatives (SDLC) is a deposit library that was established in Tokyo funded by agricultural cooperatives, National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative, Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union, etc. as part of a project commemorating the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of Agricultural Co-operatives Act. SDLC had been introduced as a pioneer of deposit libraries in Japan and operated as the special library regarding the cooperatives. However, the deteriorating economic environment from the 1990s also affected the operation of SDLC and it was closed in July 2019. With the closing of SDLC, its collection of materials was transferred to many other libraries. In this study, we organized the characteristics of the books and materials that had been kept in SDLC. Consequently, we revealed that SDLC had stored many valuable books and materials relating to agriculture or agricultural cooperatives in the 20th century. We also pointed out that it is necessary to build a system to ensure that valuable books and materials will be continuously utilized instead of being discarded even if the special library is closed.

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In 1983, The Snow Area Branch Office of The National Research Institute of Agricultural Economics (NRIAE) in Yamagata prefecture was closed and unified to main office in Tokyo. The books, research materials and building of the branch office was transferred to Shinjo-City. The aims of this paper is to explain why Shinjo- City request to transfer the highly specialized books and research materials. The main reason of the transfer was the request of the study groups consisted of young farmers. They had experiences of the studies about agricultural problems. The teaching leaders of this study groups ware research members of the branch office. The members of study groups understood the importance of the social relations and solidarities in local area from teaching leaders. And also they recognized the importance of the books and research materials. So, they appealed to the citizens of Shinjo and requested to city assembly about the transfer of books, research materials and building of the branch office. The citizens remembered the history of branch of the research institute and considered that buildings of the branch office are symbol of the culture of Shinjo-city. Therefor citizens and the members of city assembly supported the appeal of young farmers. And Shinjo-city decided to accept the books, research materials and building of the branch office. After transfer of books, research materials and building of the branch office, the Shinjo-city built new institute named "The Information Center in Snowy Country" (Yuki-no-sato Jouhou-kan). Citizens take part in management of the Information Center. For citizens, the Information Center hold seminars on the life of snowy area, exhibitions of folkcrafts and handcrafts made by citizens. The books and research materials are kept in the library of the Information Center and can be used by citizens and researchers.

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This paper reports a case of transference of historical material. In particular, between Nobunkyo (the Rural Culture Association of Japan) Agricultural Library, which was founded in 1982 and closed in 2015, and the Faculty of Food and Agriculture of Fukushima University, which has just started in 2019, a special project of transferring all the books and historical material, totally amounting almost one hundred thousand, from the former to the latter, was launched in 2020, and is still ongoing. In this paper, I summarize the above process. My special focus is on Emeritus Professor Yasuo Kondo (at the University of Tokyo), who was the president of Nobunkyo Agricultural Library at the time of its foundation and provided for himself a lot of invaluable historical materials including his personal note, unpublished manuscripts, and even prewar Japanese Governmental documents, totally amounting 13 thousand units, to the Library. Also, he has long been the president, the librarian and the best user of the Library since its foundation. My conclusion is twofold: 1) Nobunkyo and Fukushima University are responsible for the completion of this big transference project and archiving of the important materials in the modern style for researchers' and the public utilization; 2) the Faculty of Food and Agriculture of Fukushima University must be the successor of not only Professor Kondo's documents but also his critical spirit and perspectives on agricultural economics and policies, that was built through his life, and we, researchers in Fukushima, will absolutely be able to learn a lot from this library and his perspectives in the face of many challenges of Fukushima's agricultural recovery from the disaster in 2011.

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In this paper, we clarify the process of promotion of dairy farming in Hokkaido and the penetration of dairy farming in municipalities and hamlets in the prewar period of the Showa era, focusing on the areas in Oshima Sub-Prefecture Office (mainly Yakumo town) and Abashiri Sub-Prefecture Office (mainly Abashiri town). In Hokkaido, Oshima Sub-Prefecture Office was an advanced dairy farming area, on the other hand , Abashiri Sub-Prefecture Office was an emerging dairy farming area apart from some exceptions such as Notsukeushi Town. In these areas, the driving forces of dairy business were the Hokkaido Office, Sub-Prefecture Offices, dairy capital (Rakuren, Hokkaido Rennyu Co., Ltd., Morinaga & Co., Ltd.), and farmers who organized cattle associations. In examining the development process of dairy farming, this paper focuses on the Second Colonization Plan of Hokkaido, the Five-Year Industrial Plan, and the Rural Revitalization Plan, especially the Five-Year Industrial Plan promoted by Sub-Prefecture Offices and the Rural Revitalization Plan promoted by Towns and Villages and hamlets. In the Second Colonization Plan of Hokkaido, the administrative organizations such as the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Finance and the Hokkaido Office promoted dairy farming. In the Five-Year Industrial Plan, Sub-Prefecture Offices promoted dairy farming. In the Rural Revitalization Plan, from the head of Hokkaido Office to each farmer was the main promoter of the plan.

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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.

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