Modern Japanese Scholars 'Survey And Research On China' S Geology

Journal of Geography is the most important professional journal of earth sciences in Japan. Since1889, the year that Journal of Geography founded, it has long been interested in East and Southeast Asia, numerous articles related in this region on geography had been published, which include not only thesis but also plenty of field investigation. From1889to1944, the Journal of Geography carried an average of more than13percent of articles and coverage which were especially relevant to China, thus, studies on China took up the leading position in this particular journal. Based on an original survey, this paper mainly introduced the evolution and demonstrated the value of Journal of Geography, and then analyzed the characteristics of the articles about China that published from1889to1944. The paper pay special attention to the filed investigations carried out by Japanese geographers on various aspects of China, for example, the landforms, geology, resources, products, transportations as well as the social humanities. The value of above investigations is discussed and the temporal-spatial distribution features is analyzed. Using these articles which based on a large number of field survey data and results in China from Japanese geographers and other historical documents, the cognitional level of geography in China from1889to1944by the Japanese like editors and writers of Journal of Geography is reconstructed. Taking the article’s connection with China as a key point, discusses the causes of such historical phenomenon, especially the influence of the policy of Japanese invading China. We can see a closely relationship between the field survey in China by Japanese geographers and the fact that at that time, requirements for Chinese geography information increases steadily in Japan, according to this study.