Overview of Niigata Prefecture, Published 1953 📙
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Overview of Niigata Prefecture, Published 1953 📙
An official overview booklet of Niigata Prefecture published in 1953 (Showa 28).
A volume summarizing the state of Niigata Prefecture in the year following the enactment of the Peace Treaty, a period transitioning from post-war recovery to industrial reconstruction. The cover features a color illustration of Mount Myoko in the Myoko Highlands. It includes a signpost reading "MYOKOKOGEN," highlighting its face as a tourist destination.
[Commentary on Contents, etc.] 🧐
◯ A comprehensive overview covering all aspects of prefectural administration, including geography, history, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, industry, labor, and tourism. It contains an abundance of statistical tables, photographs, and charts.
◯ Includes national comparison tables for agricultural and marine processed products, as well as photographs of manufacturing sites such as machinery and mining industries. It conveys the stirrings of an era moving toward industrial reconstruction.
◯ A national map and pie chart titled "How many people went out of the prefecture to work" are eye-catching. The pages face the reality of Niigata's long-standing population outflow with the figures of that time.
◯ Another feature is that data from diverse fields such as agriculture, fisheries, industry, commerce, labor, and tourism are condensed into a single volume.
[Background of Publication]
This was a period when the occupation ended with the enactment of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1952 (Showa 27), and prefectures began to take on their own local administration in earnest.
In 1953, the Town and Village Merger Promotion Law was also promulgated, and the reorganization of local administration began to move nationwide. It can be considered a publication that is a product of the growing need for the prefecture to summarize its "now" with figures and illustrations and to disseminate it externally.
📖 A "cross-section of history" told by paper—a volume where the vitality of the eve of growth and the long-standing issue of population outflow coexist, perhaps? 😕
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