2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Analysis of Japanese Pre-War Textbooks in the U.S Library of Congress-Relation to the Blacken-out Textbooks

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530699
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	Teikyo Heisei University
Principal Investigator	TAMPO Keizo Teikyo Heisei University, 現代ライフ学部, 教授 (80100973)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	教科書 / 墨塗り教科書 / 戦後教育 / 民主化 / 国家主義
Research Abstract	The U.S. Library of Congress is the repository Japanese textbooks. Most of them were textbooks used from 1941 to 1945. There include : 1) textbooks blackened lines out or slash marks drawn directly over and 2) textbooks with many notes by written-in English 'militarism on the tags or slips were inserted or pasted. These blacken-out textbooks no longer existed to be revised when the new version were published The purpose of this research is to clarify, 1) what parts of textbooks were blackened out?, 2)why were those parts not taught?, 3) who decided on what was to blacken out?. For clear the these problems ,This research make a list of the textbooks.