@article{oai:sucra.repo.nii.ac.jp:00017016, author = {老川, 慶喜}, journal = {社会科学論集, SHAKAIKAGAKU-RONSHU (The Social Science Review)}, month = {}, note = {The aim of this paper is to examine the discussion regarding gauge-widening plans in the Meiji era in Japan. The gauge-widening plan was realized for the first time in Japanese railway history when the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka was inaugurated on 1 October 1964. Nobuji Sogo, the fourth president of Japan National Railways (JNR), had insisted on constructing a new double-track Shinkansen. Masaru Inoue and Shinpei Goto had advocated construction of railway lines based on the standard gauge of their time. Inoue was head of the Railway Directorate from 1871 to 1893, and Goto was appointed minister of communications as well as first director-general of the Railway Agency in 1908. In this paper, we intend to make clear the features of the gauge-widening plans in the Meiji era in Japan., text, application/pdf}, pages = {35--46}, title = {明治期の広軌改築論 : 井上勝と後藤新平《特別寄稿》}, volume = {142}, year = {2014}, yomi = {オイカワ, ヨシノブ} }