Reforming the Systems of Reading for the Greater East Asia：Thought War and Book Distribution

SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi

doi:2022.15.1.251

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Border Crossings: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies 2022;15(1): 251-256.
doi: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2022.15.1.251

Reforming the Systems of Reading for the Greater East Asia：Thought War and Book Distribution

Hiroshi SAKAMOTO

Faculty of Liberal Arts Teikyo University

和田敦彦著｢大東亜｣の読書編成――思想戦と日本語書物の流通(ひつじ書房、2022)

阪本博志

帝京大学文学部教授。専門は社会学·メディア史·出版文化論。

Correspondence Hiroshi SAKAMOTO ,Email: sakamoto.hiroshi.mf@teikyo-u.ac.jp

Published online: 30 December 2022.

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ABSTRACT

This study elucidates cultural controls within Japan, generation of culture for overseas audiences, and the association between the two by considering the dissemination of literature among readers. The findings can be broadly summarized in the following two points：First, we can view the transmission and propagandization of culture not only from the perspective of the sender, that is, the writer, but also the persons or organizations that teach, introduce, translate, and disseminate it. Second, it is possible to clarify the association between academic knowledge and cultural controls within Japan and external cultural manipulation.

Keywords: Cultural Control, Cultural Manipulation, Survey of Reading Trends, Propaganda, Japanese Language Materials

キ―ワ―ド: 文化統制, 文化工作, 読書傾向調査, 宣伝, 日本語資料