Advertising media culture and imeges in Japanese War time

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23730509
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Momoyama Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	ISHIDA Ayuu 桃山学院大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (70411296)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords	広告 / 婦人雑誌 / メディア / 化粧品 / ファッション / 戦争 / 女性 / 雑誌 / イメージ
Research Abstract	This study is analyzing Japanise women's magazines that dveloped as advertising media in from mid-1920 to 1940's. That especially is focuses on a socio-historical chanege of media environment during the wartime from 1931 to 1943.This examination points out this wartime period as time of foundation of consumeristic society was contorlled by the fanatic ultra-nationalism.For example, in the war time the luxurious beauty wasn't welcomed because of enemy of frugality in advertisement. The icon of beautiful women for csmetic company selling new products in the period matched the ideal woman's image of the war state. There is no doubt that this trend of women'smagazines of not 'propaganda'but advetising media created a claimate of the war as well as triggerted willinguness of buyers to buy.