사세보(佐世保)의 근대화 유산과 경관으로 본 지역 아이덴티티

Abstract

This paper examined the formation and transformation of the landscape, focusing on the “modern heritage” handed over from the former Japanese Navy to the U.S. military in the postwar period. We looked at what characteristic landscape was created and practical transformation was made as it was preserved well during the historical time when the subject of use and management was reversed from the former Japanese Navy to the U.S. military. In particular, cultural resources were made around the military facilities of Sasebo, a movement of anti-半 state-led modern heritage in the 1990s, and we examined how the generational theory with Machizukuri's “regional operation” influenced the formation and utilization of the landscape in the region. As a result, the stage of the process of establishing an organic relationship between modernization heritage, cultural resource conversion, machizukuri, and landscape formation was identified. As such, it can be seen that Sasebo has been using the electric buildings remaining in the U.S. military base as a historical resource called modernization heritage until recently. It was found through the construction of the Albuquerque Bridge, which is not only a view of the “red brick” but also a building that does not take into account the local residents, can result in trapping the local residents in the memory of the pain of war and violence. Is the ambiguous situation in which an exchange bridge named after the sister city exists where the history of occupation and the memory of violence coexist a promise for the survival of peace? Is this a measure to secure the legitimacy of the occupation of the U.S. military? The failure of the conversion to a peace industry port city desired by the residents of Sasebo and the unilateral promotion of the state's policy of ‘modernization’ in disregard of the history of war and violence eventually resulted in the formation of contradictory local identities. Despite the construction of parks for citizens and the conversion of military facilities, Sasebo will no longer be able to escape from the local identity of the U.S. military and the military port city.