The View of Wartime Top Leaders and War Criminals through the Local Media : The Case of Nobusuke Kishi

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  • Yamato Yumiko
    Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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  • 戦後日本における戦時指導者・戦争犯罪人観 (下) : 山口県発刊のメデイアに見る岸信介観を通して
  • 戦後日本における戦時指導者・戦争犯罪人観(上)山口県発刊のメディアに見る岸信介観を通して
  • センゴ ニホン ニ オケル センジ シドウシャ センソウ ハンザイニンカン ジョウ ヤマグチケン ハッカン ノ メディア ニ ミル キシ ノブスケ カン オ トオシテ
  • 戦後日本における戦時指導者・戦争犯罪人観(下)山口県発刊のメディアに見る岸信介観を通して
  • センゴ ニホン ニ オケル センジ シドウシャ センソウ ハンザイニンカン ゲ ヤマグチケン ハッカン ノ メディア ニ ミル キシ ノブスケ カン オ トオシテ

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Abstract

This paper considers how local people saw the wartime top leaders and the war criminals just im-mediately after the Asia-Pacific War. It especially focuses on Nobusuke Kishi by analyzing the media coverage centering on Bacho Shinbun published in Yamaguchi Prefecture which was Kishi's hometown and his election district as well. / This paper is divided into two parts. In the first half, by consulting Bacho Shinbun, which was the biggest newspaper published in Yamaguchi Prefecture the paper gleans information about the image of wartime top leaders and suspects of war criminals was backed up. / In the latter half, this paper highlights Kishi, examining the image of Kishi from 1945 through 1960 reflected in other local press and surveys the interviews conducted by the author. Kishi served out as the Prime Minister from 1957 to 1960. This study concentrates on the period between 1953, when he returned to the political world and 1960, when "Anpo Toso" happened. / This paper concludes that there was no article as far as I examined, which referred to Kishi as "war criminal" at the time of the election. The image of Kishi as "war criminal" was projected after 1960 since when "Anpo Toso" was getting more escalated all over Japan. It can be presumed that the image of Kishi as "war criminal" had been built up after he came back to the political stage.

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  • 比較社会文化研究

    比較社会文化研究 28 81-94, 2010-09-30

    Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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