Information Dissemination Overseas by the Private Sector in Pre-War Japan: In the Case of "The Oriental Economist"

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16987
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUMURA Yusuke 法政大学, 国際日本学研究所, 研究員 (90579179)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 石橋湛山 / 英語版『東洋経済新報』 / 対外情報発信 / Ishibahi Tanzan / Oriental Economoist

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We examined articles of "The Oriental Economist" (TOE) founded by Ishibashi Tanzan in 1934 from 1st issue to the last issue before the end of the Pacific War. As a result we found that TOE emphasised Ishibashi Tanzan's name as a symbol of the new journal and there were 27 foreign contributors who submitted article, criticism, and review including Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, a wife of Joseph Schumpeter, and Evan Frank Mottram Durbin, an economics professor of London University. Through this research project we could find situations surrounding TOE before and after starting and Ishibashi and other contributors' contributions and efforts to TOE.

Free Research Field

政治学