Labor Oral History in Japan

The purpose of this article is to present a comprehensive picture of labor oral history studies which have accumulated in Japan and to show labor oral history’s possibility to bring new aspects into research. Labor oral history studies have accumulated to a considerable extent in Japan over the years, to which the author has made a small contribution. Although the author’s document retrieval is not complete, this article would encourage historians to utilize Japanese oral histories as it gives their general outline to researchers both within and outside the country.