「アジア主義」者のタイ国進出 : 明治期の一局面 (<特集>近代日本の南方関与)

Abstract

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, there were several Asianists interested in Southeast Asia in Japan. They advocated the view that Asian nations needed solidarity against the European advance into Asia. Manjiro Inagaki, who was the first Japanese resident ambassador to Thailand, was an Asianist. He made every endeavour to send a Japanese advisor to the Thai government in the reign of King Chulalongkorn for Thailand's modernization and Japanese interests. Uzaburo Ishibashi and Chinatsu Iwamoto were also passionate Asianists. They went to Thailand to support the independence of Thailand, after hearing that relations between Thailand and France had worsened after the incident at Paknam, near Bangkok, in 1893. After arriving in Bangkok, they began to encourage Japanese immigration under the sponsorship of Phraya Surasakmontri, the Thai minister of agriculture and commerce, with the aim of helping Thailand, but they failed in their undertaking because they had no business ability.