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092-642-2506

092-642-2507

Master of Enginerring

No

Business History , Military History, Record Management

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Business History, Oil and Coal Industry
Military History, Pacific War
Selection and Destraction of Records

Research Interests

• Aso and Coal Mining from War time to the end of production
  keyword : Coal Aso company
  2020.03～2023.06.
• War time Wages of foreign labours
  keyword : foreign labour Wages during the Second World War
  2016.04～2018.08.
• Record Apraisal
  Record Disposal
  keyword : Ｒｅｃｏｒｄ　Ｍａｎａｇｅｍｅｎｔ　Ａｒｃｈｉｖｅｓ
  2014.04.
• Data base and Checklist for Archives in the U.S. and the U.K.
  keyword : Checklist for Archives
  2010.04.
• The Failure of Japanese Synthetic Oil Production Project for Aviation Gasoline
  Economic Sanction and the Pacific War against the U.S. in 1941
  
  keyword : Aviation Gasoline
  2007.04～2010.03.
• Records of the Japanese Research Project
  keyword : Economic intelligence　　Japanese Files Research Project
  2005.04RG131 and Japanese Records Project.
• Pacific War
  keyword : Pacific War
  1985.04The road to the Pacific War from the point of Oil..

Current and Past Project

• We will survey the Aso collections.
  
• The Japanese refining technology was mainly dependant on hydro-cracking of kerosene and gas oils, which seemed different from other countries　such as USA, Germany and Great Britain in the second World War period.
  The manufacture of iso-octane by polymerization and alkylation was limited due to inadequate supplies of C4 hydrocarbons. Japan introduced Universal oil products company’s iso-octane process and faced the difficulties to get C4 hydrocarbons among oil gases, sugar , alcohol, and so on.
  
  
  Hydrogen for the plants (i-octene hydrogenation, kerosene hydro-cracking, cracked gasoline hydrogenation and methanol manufacture) was made from
  ① Water Gas
  ② Cracking of waste gas
  (③Electrolysis of Water)
  
  
  Japan spent much money and more than 10 years in developing coal liquefaction for aviation gasoline but in vain. Japan mistakenly believed that German had already got oil from coal by the Bergius direct process.
  PB reports(US and British survey after the war) tells us that German produced aviation gasoline including iso-octane from the coal-tar especially C4 hydrocarbons.
  

Academic Activities Membership in Academic Society

• Records Management of Japan
• The Japan Society for Archival Science
• JAPANESE ASSOSIATION OF MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY
• Socio-Economic History Society
• Business History Society of Japan
• The Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry
• The Military History Society of Japan

Educational Activities Other Educational Activities

• 2008.06.
• 2007.06.
• 2007.02.
• 2005.01.

Professional and Outreach Activities