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An Interactive Research Project Between Japan and Africa Towards Creating a New Perspective on World War II

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25704010
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Research Field History of Asia and Africa
Research InstitutionMeiji University

Principal Investigator

MIZOBE YASU'O  明治大学, 国際日本学部, 准教授 (80401446)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,760,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,560,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Keywordsアフリカ史 / 日本アフリカ関係史 / 第二次世界大戦 / アフリカの新聞・メディア / アフリカ人兵士 / インド・ビルマ戦線 / 日本人のアフリカ進出 / ガーナ / 日本アフリカ交渉史 / ケニア / ナイジェリア / プロパガンダ / 植民地支配 / 日本人抑留者
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Since 2007, I have been conducting research projects on Japanese-African relations during WWII, based on the analysis of local media in both Africa (mainly the British Gold Coast [now Ghana]) and Japan. This project, which started in April 2013, clarified that the Gold Coast media suddenly changed its stance towards Japan, going from describing Japan as a successful model of modernization in the non-Western world to depicting it as a savage enemy, partly due to severe censorship by the British colonial authorities; the Japanese media, on the other hand, continued to describe Africa and Africans as victims of US and British imperialism in order to justify its own expansionist policy and invasions of other Asian countries. This research report was presented at international academic conferences in Russia(Institute of African Studies, Russian Science Academy) and Jamaica (University of West Indies); and an academic paper based on the above mentioned report was published in 2015.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Annual Research Report
  • 2013 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (4 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] 【翻訳】第二次世界大戦期のビルマ戦線に出征したローデシア・アフリカ人ライフル部隊(現ジンバブウェ)のアフリカ人兵士からの手紙: 全文訳(2/2)2015

    • Author(s)
      溝辺泰雄
    • Journal Title

      明治大学国際日本学研究

      Volume: 7 Pages: 65-86

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] [翻訳]第二次世界大戦期のビルマ戦線に出征したローデシア・アフリカ人ライフル部隊(現ジンバブウェ)のアフリカ人兵士からの手紙:全文訳(1/2)2014

    • Author(s)
      溝辺泰雄
    • Journal Title

      明治大学国際日本学研究

      Volume: 第6巻第1号

    • Related Report
      2013 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Discussant for the first session, 'Between Imperialism and Colonialism: Imperial Rivalry and Politics on the Ground'2015

    • Author(s)
      Yasu'o Mizobe
    • Organizer
      Russia and Global History (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2015 Summer International Symposium)
    • Place of Presentation
      Room 403, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-30
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Analysis of the Bank's Role in the Japanese Penetration into African Market in the Interwar Period (1920s and 1930s): The Case of the Yokohama Shokin Ginko2014

    • Author(s)
      Yasu'o MIZOBE
    • Organizer
      The 13th International Conference on Africanists
    • Place of Presentation
      Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-28
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] A History of Intellectual Relations between Africa and Japan during the Interwar Period and World War II with special reference to Takehiko Kojima and Minosuke Momo2014

    • Author(s)
      溝辺泰雄(MIZOBE, Yasu'o)
    • Organizer
      日本アフリカ学会第51回学術大会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都大学百周年時計台記念館
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-24
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Pan-Africanism and African Nationalism Studies in Japan during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A History of Intellectual Relations between Africa and the Far East2014

    • Author(s)
      Yasu'o MIZOBE
    • Organizer
      The 9th CBAAC International Conference on "Toward A New Pan-AfricanismDeploying Anthropology, Archaeology, History and Philosophy in the Service of Africa and the Diaspora"
    • Place of Presentation
      University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica
    • Year and Date
      2014-04-24
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 食と農のアフリカ史: 現代の基層に迫る2016

    • Author(s)
      石川博樹・小松かおり・藤本武 編
    • Publisher
      昭和堂
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Ethnicities, Nationalities, and Cross-Cultural Representations in Africa and the Diaspora2015

    • Author(s)
      Gloria Chuku (editor)
    • Publisher
      Carolina Academic Press
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 『アフリカ学事典』2014

    • Author(s)
      日本アフリカ学会(編)
    • Publisher
      昭和堂
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2013-05-21   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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