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Women at home-front: the image-making through war films in postwar Japan and its impact on the understanding of Japan's war responsibility

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24510391
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Gender
Research InstitutionRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Principal Investigator

YOSHIDA Kaori  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 准教授 (00550386)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAGAIKE Kazumi  大分大学, 学内共同利用施設等(国際教育研究センター), 准教授 (90364992)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Keywords戦争の記憶とメディア / 日本の戦争映画と戦争の記憶 / メディアと記憶のジェンダー化 / 女性と戦争メディア / 戦争マンガと記憶の構築 / 戦争の記憶 / メディアと戦争 / 戦争記憶とジェンダー / 戦争の物語 / 戦争映画と記憶 / マンガと戦争の記憶 / 博物館・祈念館と戦争の記憶 / 戦争の物語と記憶 / ジェンダー / 戦後戦争映画 / 戦後戦争マンガ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project, through analyzing Japanese war films, their reviews, and their contexts, elucidates that women depicted in war films in postwar Japan play the following two roles in the memory-making of World War II: 1) stressing the formula of "woman = victim = Japan" by suffering from war atrocity at home front, or 2) fighting with male soldiers at the battlefield as war nurses or phone operators, suggesting their active involvement in the war as victimizers. In the latter case, the fighting women are "the Other" (Okinawa and Sakhalin) distinguished from the "proper Japanese women" in the mainland (Japan's Self) who stress Japan’s role as the victim. In the discourse of war memory, mediated narratives have shaped gendered war memories by compromising, regulating, and negotiating the subject of women. The feminization of war memory co-exists with the masculine/dominant desire toward the nation’s war narrative in postwar Japan.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (28 results)

All 2015 2014 2013 2012 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (21 results) (of which Invited: 3 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Editorial2013

    • Author(s)
      Kazumi Nagaike
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Special Issue: Boys’ Love Manga

      Volume: 4:1 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-8

    • DOI

      10.1080/21504857.2013.793207

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] MANGAが女性化する!?-フィリピンを中心として2013

    • Author(s)
      長池一美(共著:大城房美ほか)
    • Journal Title

      マンガ研究

      Volume: 20 Pages: 112-151

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] “Editorial: Transnational Boys’ Love Fan Studies”2013

    • Author(s)
      長池一美(菅沼勝彦と共著)
    • Journal Title

      Transformative Works and Cultures

      Volume: 12

    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Acquisition of Cultural Competence through Visual Media: Perception of Masculinities in Japanese Society2012

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education

      Volume: 13 Pages: 135-152

    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] “Fudanshi (“Rotten Men”) in Asia: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Male Readings of BL,”2015

    • Author(s)
      Kazumi Nagaike
    • Organizer
      Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Sheraton Chicago (Chicago, U.S.)
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-28
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] “Reading manga in the discourse of popular memory: the analysis of the grotesque in war manga”2014

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Manga Futures Conference: International Scholarly Conference on Manga
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia)
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-02
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 「日本の戦争マンガにおける動物化」2014

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      日本マンガ学会九州支部例会
    • Place of Presentation
      北九州漫画ミュージアム(福岡県北九州市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-10
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 公開研究会「マンガと戦争の記憶」コメンテーター2014

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Organizer
      日本マンガ学会 九州マンガ交流部会 第31回例会
    • Place of Presentation
      北九州漫画ミュージアム(福岡県北九州市)
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-10
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 少女マンガに見られる戦争表象:「少女」の主体性構築の分析2012

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Organizer
      九州マンガ学会 例会
    • Place of Presentation
      九州大学(福岡県)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Gendered construction of war memories: synergetic effects between victim, mother, and the abject in Japanese war film

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      Popular Culture Association Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Brisbane, Australia
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] コメンテーター・通訳「マンガにみる日本幕末史」

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      日本マンガ学会九州支部29回例会
    • Place of Presentation
      立命館アジア太平洋大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 他者のマンガ化:戦争マンガにおける他者表象の動物的描写

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      日本マンガ学会九州支部31回例会
    • Place of Presentation
      北九州市漫画ミュージアム
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Discourse of War in Japanese Shjo Manga

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Organizer
      Popular Culture Association Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Brisbane, Australia
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] アジアの腐女子・腐男子:BL研究におけるジェンダーセクシュアリティの言説

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Organizer
      日本マンガ学会第13回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      北九州市漫画ミュージアム
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] For Liberation and/or Moe?: The Decline of Bishonen and the Emergence of New Types of Male Protagonist in Contemporary BL

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Organizer
      Modern Women and Their Comics: Changing Local Identities from the 1960s to 2000s
    • Place of Presentation
      Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Storytelling in Boys’ Love Manga: An Analysis of the Representation of Foreigners,” Bucheon International Comics Festival

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Organizer
      Bucheon International Comics Festival
    • Place of Presentation
      BICOF International Conference, South Korea
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Invisible Women: Female war responsibility and the construction of war memory through the narrative of The Battleship Yamato”

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      Asian Studies Faculty & Graduate Students Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      The University of British Columbia (Canada)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] "Fantasy and Sexuality of Cosplay in Japanese Girls’ Manga Comics"

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      Guest talk for Asian Studies course: "Gender and Sexuality in Modern China, Korea and Japan"
    • Place of Presentation
      Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia (Canada)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] "Women, Abjected: the role of women in constructing Japanese national war narratives"

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      The Centre for Japanese Studies Bag Lunch Talk Series
    • Place of Presentation
      The University of British Columbia (Canada)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] "Gendered construction of war memories through postwar Japanese media"

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      大分大学国際教育研究センター・国際理解教育講演シリーズ
    • Place of Presentation
      大分大学(大分県)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 女性の戦争責任とメディア表象: 戦艦大和の物語をめぐる戦争記憶の構築

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      九州マンガ学会 例会
    • Place of Presentation
      九州大学(福岡県)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] “Understanding Japan: Popular Media as a Tool in the Japanese Studies Classroom"

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      Teaching Japanese Popular Culture Conference 2012
    • Place of Presentation
      National University of Singapore (Singapore)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] "Gendered construction of war memories: victim, mother, and the abject in Japanese war films"

    • Author(s)
      吉田香織
    • Organizer
      立命館アジア太平洋大学アジア太平洋学部フォーラム(研究会)
    • Place of Presentation
      立命館アジア太平洋大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] "Fudanshi in Asia,” Women’s Manga in Asia: Glocalizing Different Cultures and Identities

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Organizer
      the University of Sydney and Women’s MANGA Research Project
    • Place of Presentation
      The University of Sydney (Australia)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 事例報告:香港とフィリピンのマンガ状況

    • Author(s)
      長池一美(大城房美と共同発表)
    • Organizer
      九州マンガ交流部会
    • Place of Presentation
      北九州市漫画ミュージアム(福岡県)
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia, Chapter 6: "(In)visible Women: Gendering of Popular War Memories through the Narrative of the Battleship Yamato for Six Decades in Postwar Japan"2015

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Total Pages
      464
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, "What is Japanese BL studies?: A historical and analytical overview"2015

    • Author(s)
      Kazumi Nagaike (with Tomoko Aoyama)
    • Total Pages
      303
    • Publisher
      University of Press of Mississippi
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica2012

    • Author(s)
      長池一美
    • Total Pages
      227
    • Publisher
      Brill Academic Publication
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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