Bir Japon Yüzbaşının İzinde Japonya’nın Yakın Doğu Açılımını Okumak: Yüzbaşı Haroşiya Hirayama’nın 1906 Yılının Son Demlerinde İstanbul’dan Basra’ya Uzanan Yolculuğu ve Anlattıkları
Reading the Near East Opening of Japan on the Trail of a Japanese Captain: Captain Haroshiya Hirayama’s Journey from Istanbul to Basra and His Stories in the Last Days of 1906

Summary/Abstract: This study focused on the trip of the Japanese Captain Haroshiya Hirayama, who entered the Ottoman Country in the last days of 1906 as a result of the desire of the Japanese State to define the Near East, from Istanbul to Basra. During this trip, which the Japanese state carried out for imperial purposes, the Japanese captain visited what points in the geographies of Anatolia, Syria and Iraq, what relationships he could develop with the social structures of these places, and what meanings the superpowers of the era, such as Germany and Great Britain, especially the Ottoman State, attached to such special trips in his particular work was particularly focused on. Although the study devotes itself to studying all these subheadings, it also aimed to open a window from Türkiye to Far Eastern studies using archival materials in Türkiye. Thus, with this method, a bunch of the history of the Far Eastern states that have not been studied much in Türkiye was presented and it was desirable that more researchers would be directed to this area by setting an example. Finally, the study criticized the belief that the phenomenon of imperialism is a duty only for the European states and opened the discussion of the thesis that the states located in the Far East also act with this mission from time to time in the historical process.

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