Abstract

This article introduces the “Warring-States Japan Battle Data,” a new dataset covering 2,889 battles occurring within Japan during its Warring-States period, from 1467 to 1600. The dataset contains fifteen variables covering various features of the battles, including the date, location, participants, initiators, and victors, among others. This article introduces the sources of the data, describes the collection procedures and coding rules, presents basic descriptive statistics of key variables of interest, and applies the battle data to an important question in the political violence and international relations literature: whether conflict “contagiously” diffuses across time and space. The data introduced here should be of interest to scholars of international relations, civil conflict, early modern East Asia, and Japanese history, among others.

摘要

本文介绍了“战国日本战役数据”，这是一个新的数据集，涵盖了从 1467 年到 1600 年日本战国时期发生的 2,889 场战役。该数据集包含 15 个变量，涵盖了战役的各种特征，包括日期、位置、参与者、发起者和胜利者等。本文介绍了数据来源，描述了收集程序和编码规则，给出了感兴趣的关键变量的基本描述性统计，并将战斗数据应用于政治暴力和国际关系文献中的一个重要问题：冲突是否“传染”弥漫在时间和空间中。此处介绍的数据应该对国际关系、国内冲突、近代早期东亚和日本历史等方面的学者感兴趣。