This research will verify how researchers of imperial universities recognized the external factors in times of war when their government-led drastic external changes, such as the Science Mobilization and the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.
Furthermore, verification will include how researchers behave (adaptability) and on what the formation of “intellectual foundation” (the adaptability) of each researcher was built, by focusing on the “intellectual foundation” (for example, academic attainment,organizational structure, and personal relationship) which were the base of the researchers’ thoughts. This research will be comprehensively conducted by researchers in the field of education history, Japanese history and Japanese intellectual history.
It is expected that the achievement of this research not only provides a new perspective of “intellectual foundation” of the researchers of imperial universities in times of war, but also provides suggestions on how academic research should be, which is an issue facing present Japanese universities. Some of the research results were published in the “Intellectual Foundation of Researchers in Imperial Universities: focusing on the Tohoku Imperial University”.