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    •  In modern history, the development route of fisheries has been elucidated in relation to the government’s industrial development policy as well as the policy of increasing national prosperity and military power. The honeymoon relationship between modern Japanese fishery education and the pelagic fishery has taken root in parallel with the aim of modernization and capitalization of the fisheries led by the nation and the strengthening of Japan’s national power and territory expansion. Therefore, the activities of fishery education and the will of the nation were shown to be inseparable.


    • The analysis in relation to the government’s industrial development policy and the RussoJapanese War revealed that the structural characteristics imprinted on Japanese fishery education lie in “Pelagic Fishery Education ,” which trained human resources required by the national policy aiming to expand the post-RussoJapanese War territory and fishery interests, based on the vocational qualification system created by “the Law for the Promotion of Pelagic Fisheries.”

       The photos show the Japanese fishing boats competing with foreign fishing boats in the middle of the Meiji era and the fur of fur seals on a deck.