2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Positive Studies of Information and Media Policy by Civil Information & Education Division, GHQ/SCAP in Occupied Japan
| Project/Area Number |
22330046
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUCHIYA Reiko 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (00275504)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMAMOTO Taketoshi 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 名誉教授 (30098412)
KATOU Tetsurou 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 客員教授 (30115547)
UMEMORI Naoyuki 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (80213502)
IKAWA Mitsuo 立教大学, 社会学部, 教授 (00283333)
KOBAYASHI Soumei 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 学術研究員 (00514499)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | メディア / インテリジェンス / プロパガンダ |
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| Research Abstract |
To reveal the continuity of policies and activities of the psychological warfare branches of the Allied Powers and the Office of War Information (OWI), USA, during WWII with regard to those of the Civil Information and Education (CIE) Section, SCAP/GHQ, in Occupied Japan after the war, "CIE Weekly Reports" were investigated. The CIE produced many research reports and public opinion polls in cooperation with Japanese public opinion research institutions. The activities of one organization, the Suenaga Public Opinion Institute, has been revealed through this project. It was also shown that the CIE information and propaganda policies included the intervention of the CIE radio section into news coverage of the Korean War by NHK radio in Tokyo, the controlled coverage of the atomic bomb and atomic power in southern Korea and the extension of the VOA in Asia.
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