International comparism of manga's ideological influence as "cultural capital"

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23720045
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Kyoto Seika University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIMURA KAZUMA 京都精華大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (00368044)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: マンガ環境の国際比較 / 文化資本 / マンガ教育 / マンガリテラシー / マンガ市場 / メディア環境 / ポピュラーカルチャー研究 / 学習マンガ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is to compare the ideological influence of Manga as cultural capital in Japan, Korea and Singapore.
As a result, we could confirm the differences in the level: in Japan, the distribution market of manga in daily life is making manga to embodied cultural capital, in Korea, it seems to be more institutionalized cultural capital, supported by the government and educational system, and finally in Singapore, manga as objectified cultural capital, which can be found in different languages and made by several countries’ artists.
Those studies are results of researches, basing on the interviews and results of questionnaires of publishers, schools, bookstores and analyzing the manga works and products in Japan, Korea and Singapore. The presentation of this study’s result is done in 3 languages- Japanese, English, and Korean-, in form of an educational manga, fitting to the research’s theme.

Free Research Field

思想史・マンガ研究