河路 由佳
日本オーラル・ヒストリー研究 (3) 75-97 2007年9月15日
The invited Thai students came to Japan based on the student exchange agreement between the governments of Thailand and Japan, arriving during the war in 1942 and another groups again in 1943. Japanese documents stated that the first six students who came to Japan in 1942 were excellent and well behaved, and the six students who came to Japan in 1943 were inferior and not obedient. Interviews with the former invited students by the author in October 2005 revealed misunderstandings in these documents. In this paper, the author analyzes the differences, and discusses the utility of interviews in qualitative researches.