Multi-faceted Analyses of the Early Cold War Culture in East Asia

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22320131
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: Japan Women's University
• Principal Investigator: NARITA Ryuichi 日本女子大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (60189214)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IWASAKI Minoru 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研院, 教授 (10201948) ; TSUBOI Hideto 国際日本文化研究センター, 研究部, 教授 (90197757) ; TOBA Koji 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (90346586) ; TOBE Hideaki 東京経済大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (90366998) ; MARUKAWA Tetsushi 明治大学, 政治経済学部, 専任教授 (50337903) ; YOSHIMI Syunya 東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 教授 (40201040) ; WATANABE Naoki 武蔵大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80409367)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SATO Izumi 青山学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (80279637)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日本史 / 近現代史 / 戦後史 / 文化史 / 思想史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The "postwar" era regards the Cold War regime in general in world history perspective. Under this recognition, "postwar culture" which has been national history manner consideration, our project examined re-grasping the "Cold War culture". The project has been subjected to re-contextualize and inspect the intellectual history of "Japan" in the East Asia, yet the project found "war experience" was a major axis for Japanese intellectual history. The project studied how “the Asia-Pacific War experience" has been reviewed in the postwar era under the influence of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Also the project especially concentrated on the elucidation of any summary has been made on Okinawa. The Cold War culture was often lay out to movies and popular fiction so that the project also examined Cold War Culture era movies. Our project forged the concept of the Cold War culture through these processes.

Free Research Field

日本史