Former clansmen of Yonezawa had come up to Tokyo one after another from the HANSEKI-HOKAN (the return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor) on, though they were small in number. Some were in expectation of attending school there, some of finding employment, and others of holding a position in the government institutions. But administrative organization was still incomplete, and educational institutions were few and poor in substance, too.
The persons, whose careers were referred to in this paper, were the representative ones from Yonezawa, and it was those pioneers who tried hard to inspire the younger generation from their province and lead them to play active parts in each field, making a contribution to national prosperity after the middle period of the Meiji era.
Following the pioneers' courses or careers, we realize the transition of educational system in Japan in those days. From that point of view, it may be said that the investigation of their courses is to find out the significant materials for study of the history of education in the early years of the Meiji era.

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The librarian of Japan Society of Civil Engineers found the record of survey executed for the project of irrigating Asaka Plain, “Asaka Sosui”, by using water from Lake Inawashiro during the early Meiji era, This study describes contents of this record and, from this contents, make clear about history of the project which has been unknown until today.
The main results on this study are as follows: Thesurvey working in the record had been mainly executed by engineers who were belonging to the Fukushima prefectural office (not to Meiji government) This survey was executed not only on Asaka Plain but also on the south area from Sukagawa city (the survey on this area has not been written down in the history of this project). The research by C. J. Van Doom, Dutch engineer, who was employed by Meiji govemment for assisting in Japanese river improvement was also written down on the record. Before coming to Fukushima, he just staid at the port of Nobiru, in Miyagi pref., planned by himself and continuously observed between Lake Inawashiro and Asaka plain for six days in Fukushima. In the record of survey, the contents of his research for the “Asaka Sosui” project were more clearly written down than other historical materials.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify historical process of reclamation work and land use transition developed the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture include Iwase Farm to retain land use from the establishment of the Imperial estate in 1880 to the present. Classify reclamation work developed Iwase Farm and the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture by three periods. And elucidate the transition of the land use from the historical records owned by Iwase Farm, the administrative report on reclamation work, map data. Rice fields increased over the land original river system by the irrigation project after the war. The original wild nature disappeared, and the agricultural landscape of the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture was homogenized. Iwase Farm and the surrounding region in the middle and south of Fukushima Prefecture is the multi-layered space where the change of land use since the Meiji. And it appears as agricultural landscape, including the historical significance and framework of landscape.

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This paper will show local community expectations for public schools which realistically appear in the school visit by the Emperor Meiji in the Imperial Tour. This paper pays particular attention to the 1876 Imperial Tour. There is a great deal of previous research regarding the Imperial Tours performed in the Meiji period. The majority has studied the Imperial Tours from the government's perspective. The Emperor's visits in the Meiji period, however, were also significant occasions for those being visited. This paper approaches the topic by using Koriyama Elementary School as a case study. Koriyama Elementary School was the first public elementary school visited by the Emperor after the enactment of the 1872 Education System Order. This paper will seek to answer the following questions : 1. In the establishment, the administration, and the realization of the Emperor's visit, what kind of expectations regarding the school were held by the local community? 2. After Imperial Tour, how did the school pass on the fact of the Emperor's visit? This paper attempts to describe the ways in which the people involved with the establishment, the administration, and the realization of the Emperor's visit understood the school and the Emperor. The expectations for public school that were based on local interests showed themselves in all their honesty in the process of the realization of the Emperor's visit. The following conclusions are made in this paper : 1. In the establishment and administration of the school, Koriyama Elementary School accepted the financial assistance of wealthy merchants and supporters. On the occasion of the Emperor's visit, Wealthy merchants and supporters recognized the school as symbol of local industrial development and civilization grounded in local interests such as the encouragement of industry, the transfer of prefectural offices, etc. 2. After the Emperor's visit, Koriyama elementary school passed on the "fact" surrounding the visit by naming the school "KINTOU," although later the name's meaning and significance were interpreted intentionally, depending on the local situation. Previous research has understood that this local "educational enthusiasm" spurred pioneering school architecture and administrative methods. However, this paper clarifies that local community interest and expectations as well as "educational enthusiasm" influenced the establishment and administration of local schools.

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This paper aims to clarify a possibility that a model of the civic center plan in Yamagata city by Michitsune Mishima in early Meiji was the Sapporo prefectural office plan. Tatsuyuki Usui who was a government employee in the Ministry of Hokkaido development had an opportunity to know the Sapporo prefectural office plan. It is quite likely that he who became a local government employee in the Yamagata Prefecture suggested a civic center plan in imitation of the Sapporo prefectural office plan, and Michitsune Mishima who trusted him accepted it as a governor of Yamagata Prefecture.

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The aim of the present article is to focus on the efforts of Miyajima Seiichiro to foster a plan for constitutional government out of his concern for the necessity of a centralized regime centered upon an imperial government, which stemmed from his experience in the Boshin Civil War, his activities to implement that plan, and the results of those activities. The seeds of Miyajima's plan were first planted by his efforts to reform the government of Yonezawa-Han between 1869 and 1871. To begin with, he argued that in order to realize a centralized political regime, it was necessary for the government to establish a rock solid imperial system. Such an argument formed the basis of his constitutional plan and promoted reform through government measures. Next, he called for radical reform that would transcend the feudal "han" 藩 system, like what had been done in Kochi-Han, promoting centralization from the ground up, in which the request for the formation of a national house of parliament, which would take on the task of reform, would be linked to the idea of local administrative assemblies (chihokan-kaigi 地方官会議). These essentials were concreted as "Rikkoku-Kengi" by Miyajima's fears which were shared with local administrators over centralization being obstructed by the sole discretion of the Treasury Ministry. After the presentation of his plan, Miyajima set about the task of promulgating a national constitution and setting up local administrative assemblies, and while neither was realized during the absence of governmental tops between November 1871 and September 1873, the compilation of a national constitution was determined as one of the duties of the Dajokan's Office of Legislative Affairs (sain左院), which was set up in 1871, a directive was sent from Dajokan Minister Sanjo Sanetomi to local administrators to the effect that assemblies would be convened under the Office of Legislative Affairs, and the Office's provisions determined that its staff would be permanent members of the assemblies and local administrators joint members. Miyajima sent his constitutional proposal to Okubo Toshimichi after the latter's return from abroad and through Okubo's efforts, the way was paved to wards the drafting of a constitution after the controversy over the invasion of Korea was settled, but the convening of local administrative assemblies was put on hold. In 1874 Miyajima again demanded that the assemblies be convened as a way of combating the government's arbitrary decisionmaking on key issues, but to no avail. In the end, the following year his relentless efforts did'nt bear fruit. However, with the closure of the Office of Legislative Affairs, the drafting of the constitution was turned over the Genro-In and the administrative assemblies were finally convened.

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