Intelligence, Number 11, March 2011

Special Issue : The Depth of the Intelligence War between Japan and the USA

  • Psychological Warfare in Saipan as the Beginning of Postwar Information Policy in Japan ／ Reiko TSUCHIYA
  • Bonner Fellers and the Office of Strategic Services Planning Group / Haruo IGUCHI
  • President Obama and His Intelligence Operations / Mikio HARUNA
  • The Chinese Communist Party's Work on International Public Opinion during the Second Sino-Japanese War ―With an Emphasis on the Propaganda Given to European & American Journalists / Xinli ZHAO
  • Occupation Intelligence Immediately after the Advance―An Interview with Brig. Gen. Elliot R. Thorpe, Chief, CIS, GHQ / Interviewer & Interpreter ; Eiji TAKEMAE
  • Work in the 441st CIC Detachment No. 30A (Niigata) James F. English / Interviewer & Interpreter : Ken-ichi HARADA
  • Introduction to Korean Diplomatic Documents on the Reversion of Okinawa / Interpreter & Translator : Somei KOBAYA
  • Study on the History of The Asahi Newspaper ―With a Focus on historical data / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO

Special Issue :Discourses on Occupied Japan

  • The Addendum to the Explanatory Notes of Niwa Fumio's "Counter Human": On the conclusion of the literary editing " The Selected of Materials from Magazines in Occupied Japan / Kazushige MUNAKATA
  • Mass Culture in Occupied Japan / Ken-ichi HARADA
  • On Ohya Soichi during the Occupation Period:“Ohya Soichi and Sarutori Satoshi”/ Hiroshi SAKAMOTO
  • The Simplification of Imperial Honorifics in Newspapers During the Occupation: The Policies vs. the Practices of the National Language Council, Imperial Household Ministry, and the Occupation's CCD Censorship / Noriko AKIMOTO SUGIMORI
  • Enlightening Discourse on Sex and Procreation in Tochigi under the Allied Occupation―On the Sex Educational Magazine, "Mezame"/ Taro SHIMODA
  • Recalling the "Atomic Age": Aspects of Postwar Publications for Japanese Children through the 1950s / Kosei ONO

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Intelligence, Number 12, March 2012

Special Issue ：Studies on the Prange Collection in the last 10 years

  • The Prange Collection and the Completion of its Database / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO
  • 1945-1949 GHQ Censorship Operations on Japanese Publications: An overview through books and pamphlets held in the Gordon W. Prange Collection / Eiko SAKAGUCHI
  • Images of the Atomic Bombing and Atomic Energy in the Gordon W. Prange Collection during the Occupation Period of Japan / Tetsuro KATO
  • The Classics and/or Canon Restructured in the GHQ/SCAP Occupation Period / Kenko KAWASAKI
  • A Bibliographical Study on Korean Organs in Japan during the GHQ/SCAP Period / Somei KOBAYASHI
  • Ethnic/National Consciousness in Textbooks for Korean Pupils in Occupied Japan after the Second World War: The Gordon W. Prange Collection at the University of Maryland / CHI Jong Hi

Special Issue : Intelligence in Crises

  • News Coverage of the Korean War by the Japanese Media as Psychological Warfare / Reiko TUCHIYA
  • Eiichi Nagasue and Public Opinion Surveys / Mitsuo IKAWA
  • Introduction to the Translation of Chapter II. Military Intelligence Section, GHQ/SWPA, A Brief History of the G-2 Section, GHQ, SWPA, and Affiliated Units / Interpreter : Reiko TSUCHIYA　Translator: Shoutarou SHIROUZU
  • Control of Paper, Control through Paper / Noritsugu GOMIBUCHI
  • The Structure of the "Humorous Salaried Men Novel," Focusing on Genji Keita's "Santo Juyaku" / Takane SUZUKI
  • Censored Articles of SHINSOU under the Occupation / Kenji HARADA

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Intelligence, Number 13, March 2013

Special Issue ：The Public Diplomacy of Japan and the USA, and Information Warfare in Asia

  • Truth is the Best Propaganda: Edward R. Murrow and the United States Information Agency under JFK / Nancy SNOW (Translator: Koichi HANYU)
  • The U.S. Advisory Commission on Information and Mark Arthur May: A Report on Unattributed Activities of the USIS in Japan in the 1950s / Yuka TSUCHIYA
  • The Public Diplomacy of the Japanese Empire and East Asia: A Case Study on an Oriental Tour for American Journalists by the Carnegie Endowment, 1929 / Somei KOBAYASHI
  • The Imperial Japanese Army's Intelligence Activities during the Changkufeng Incident / Hiroyasu MIYASUGI
  • How did the Japanese military cope with cooperation between the USA and the USSR ? ―From the break out of World War II to the invasion of Manchuria by the Red Army / Yasuhide YONEHAMA

Special Issue : Reconsidering the Media in Occupied Japan

  • The transformation of "Bunraku" in the GHQ occupation period: Being a Classical / Kenko KAWASAKI
  • The Cultural Policy of the GHQ/SCAP CIE Arts and Monuments Division on Fine Arts―Personal Affairs and the Preservation of Cultural Properties / Kaori SATO
  • Where are the Atomic Bomb Survivors? ―On atomic-bomb discourse in Japan under US Occupation / Takumi ISHIKAWA
  • The Usefulness of Daily Activity Reports in CCD Materials / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO
  • A study on users of SCAP/CIE information centers in Occupied Japan / Reiko TSUCHIYA

Independent Articles

  • A Basic Study of the 〈TOKU-500〉 held in the National Diet Library : Materials of Japanese Censorship before and during World War II. / Yoshiyuki MAKI
  • Saseo ONO in his Nichiyo Hochi Days / Kosei ONO
  • Introduction to the first appearance of "tsunami" in English literature?: The report of a great earthquake in the August 8, 1896, issue of "Harper’s Weekly" / Muneyuki KOBAYASHI

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Intelligence, Number 14, March 2014

Special Issue : Reconsidering Censorship History in Japan and East Asia

  • The Forefront of Censorship Studies: Linking the Prewar and Postwar Periods / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO and Kunio ASAOKA (Moderator: Reiko TSUCHIYA)
  • Struggling with National Security and Human Rights: Communication Censorship in South Korea, 1960s-1990s / Somei KOBAYASHI
  • The Movement of Censorship Spaces and the Spread of the Korean Language: Between "March 15" 1928 and "April 16" 1929 / KO Young-ran
  • The Building of the Censorship System in Postwar Taiwan: Focusing on Related Laws and Executive Organs / HO I-Lin
  • Censorship in Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Era / Isao KAWAHARA
  • Censorship of Light Comedy in Occupied Japan / Masaaki NAKANO
  • A Multitude of Meanings in Osculations: Prewar and Postwar Continuities Seen through Kiss Censorship in Japan / Jonathan ABEL (Translator: Bunshiro SUGIMOTO)
  • The Vision of Publication Censorship Reform during the Early Showa Period: Conflicts between Publishers and the Home Ministry of Japan / Kazuyuki YASUNO

Special Issue : Cultural Aspects of Japan after the Occupation and the U.S. in the Cold War

  • The Rockefeller Foundation and Japanese Writers: An Aspect of Japan-US Cultural Interaction in the Cold War Period / Naoyuki UMEMORI
  • Japanese Imagery in Hollywood during the Cold War: On Sayonara (1957) / Michiko SHIMURA
  • University Student Newspapers in Occupied Japan / Reiko TSUCHIYA
  • The Way "NAKANO Seigo" Has Been Told in the Postwar Period: Rethinking His Political Image of Anti-Militarism and Progressivism / Noriaki YOSHIDA

Independent Articles

  • The Changing of Political Propaganda in China: From the Perspective of Chinese Teleplays about the Second Sino-Japanese War / ZHAO Xinli
  • Overlooked Textual Revision in Different Versions of Novels Published before World War Two and in Occupied Japan: The Example of Nobuko Yoshiya / Atsuko FUJITA

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Intelligence, Number 15, May 2015

Special Issue : Intelligence and Information Policy in the Early Period of the Cold War

  • Canadian Intelligence Operations in Castro’s Cuba / Don Munton（Translator: Shun TANIGAWA）
  • America’s Nuclear Policy Early in the Cold War, 1941-1955: From the Perspective of Henry A. Wallace / Mayako SHIMAMOTO
  • Conflict and Compromise among the U.S. Department of State, Department of Defense and Information Agency: Disuse of VUNC as Propaganda Radio in Cold War East Asia / Soumei KOBAYASHI
  • “Go for Broke!” and Early Cold War Cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense / Miyoko SHIMURA

Special Issue : A New Phase of Studies on Culture in Occupied Japan

  • CIE Libraries and Art Information in Post-Surrender Japan / Toshiharu OMUKA
  • A Re-examination of “Daini-Geijutsu (Secondline Art)”: The Invention of Classics and the Modernization of the Literary in the GHQ Occupation Period / Kenko KAWASAKI
  • "Dazai Osamu" for the Communists / Akihiro TAKIGUCHI
  • Research note: An Issue Concerning Descriptions Written by a Communist Author in the Occupation: The Works of Kan Eguchi and Their Censorship / Taro SHIMODA
  • Research note: Introduction to Historical Intelligence Materials: Kyabare (Cabaret) and Dansuhooru (Ballrooms) in Ginza, Tokyo, in the Occupation Period / Saori MATSUDA

  • Special contribution : A Study of the Imperial Japanese Army Nakano School / Teruo MUTA
  • East-Asia Organizations and Journalists at Two Major Japanese Newspapers, the Mainichi and the Asahi, from the 1920s to the 1950s / Reiko TSUCHIYA
  • The External Information Policy of the State in the Era of Globalized Telecommunication Networks and Mass-Based Democracy: The Case of Japan, 1870-1945 / Tomoko AKAMI
  • Research note: Signals Intelligence Activities of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese War / Hiroyasu MIYASUGI
  • Research note: The Issei, the first Generation Japanese Immigrants, conceal their OSS Career / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Introduction to Historical Intelligence Materials: The 1980s and 1990s－Who Controls Communication Security－The Department of Commerce or the NSA? and Under the Radar: NSA’s Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure / Susan LANDAU（translated by Junichi HIRAMATSU）

  • The Recommendation Book System as "Soft Control": Reading Control in the Ministry of Education and the Japan Culture Association of Publishers / Ayako NAKANO
  • Research note: The Foundation of the Manshu Nichinichi Shimbun and the first president, Moriji MORIYAMA / RONG Yuan

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Intelligence, Number 16, March 2016

Special Issue : Intelligence in Occupied Japan

  • Democracy's Porous Borders: Espionage, Smuggling and the Making of Japan's Transwar Regime, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Translator: Shun TANIGAWA
  • A New View of Li Xianglan (Lee Koran) Study According to the Verification of the "Yoshiko Yamaguchi file" in NARA, Kenko KAWASAKI Abstract-PDF
  • G-2 Historical Section of the occupation army SCAP/FEC and a Japanese group of former military officers, Reiko TSUCHIYA Abstract-PDF
  • Hans E．Pringsheim in the Civil Censorship Division, Hiroshi KIMURA Abstract-PDF
  • Japanese Examiner working at CCD ― Number, Job and Section, Taketoshi YAMAMOTO Abstract-PDF

Special Issue : Propaganda in the Second World War and "postwar" period

  • The Publicity Strategy in the Department of the Army during Hostilities ― Focusing on the Actual Conditions of the Production of Propaganda Posters, Natsuko TAJIMA
  • The intensification plan for Radio Propaganda of Comintern (Communist international) after the Outbreak of the German-Soviet War, Akira SHIMADA
  • UN Radio in the Early Korean War: The Roles of VOA/BBC and Trilateral Relations between the US, UK, and UN, Somei KOBAYASHI Abstract-PDF
  • United States Local Intelligence Gathering in Okinawa: A Case Study of USCAR Reports on the 1965 Legislature Election, Hideko YOSHIMOTO
  • The Nobel Peace Prize and its Controversial 3 Years during the Cold War : Åse Lionæs’s Reform and Challenge for the Prize, Koichi HANYU Abstract-PDF

  • The Circulation of Books Between Japan and its Overseas Territories Before World War II: Ōsakayagō-shoten, Tōkyō-dō, and Book Distributors in Kansai and Kyūshū., Yoshitaka HIBI Abstract-PDF
  • Spione who were deported from Japan in1914-1915, Daisuke FUKUOKA Abstract-PDF
  • The Propaganda of the Japanese Puppet Regime in Tianjin during the Second Sino-Japanese War―A Case Study of the “Jinjin Monthly”, Qu YANG

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Intelligence, Number 17, March 2017

Special Issue : The Fukushima Juro Collection and Magazines in Occupied Japan

  • Rethinking Occupation History in the New Millennium, Louise Young（Translator: Takane SUZUKI ）Abstract-PDF
  • Introduction to The Fukushima Juro Collection: Its History and Background, Kazushige MUNAKATA Abstract-PDF
  • Current Research on Kasutori Magazine, Takumi ISHIKAWA Abstract-PDF
  • The Dynamic Reconfiguration of Magazine Genres and Magazine Publishing in Japan’s Occupation Period : A Vision Obtained through Preliminary Research of the Fukushima Juro Collection, Shiho MAESHIMA Abstract-PDF
  • Illustrated Stories (Emonogatari) During the Occupational Period, Kaoru MITANI Abstract-PDF

Special Issue : The Last Witness of the Japanese Imperial Army Nakano School Studies Based on the New Evidence

  • The Last Words of the 101 -year- old Warrior of Nakano School, Shojiro SAKAMOTO Abstract-PDF
  • The Comprehensive History of "Yama Kikan", Hiroshi KIMURA Abstract-PDF
  • Research Note: The Significant Official Documents of Nakano School, Taketoshi YAMAMOTO Abstract-PDF

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  • Intelligence Activities by Allied Translater and Interpreter Section (ATIS) of GHQ/SCAP&FEC in Occupied Japan, Reiko TSUCHIYA Abstract-PDF
  • Multi-Dimensional Censorship against “ China Nights”：Analysis of the IWG Documents Held by the National Archives and Records Administration, Kenko KAWASAKI Abstract-PDF
  • U.S. Psychological Warfare During the Cold War Asia: Focusing on the Expansions from East Asia to Southeast Asia and Okinawa as the Focal Point, Somei KOBAYASHI Abstract-PDF
  • Radio Pirenaika: The Clandestine Radio Broadcasting Started by Comintern, Akira SHIMADA Abstract-PDF
  • The Presence of Osaka Nikkasha Which Obstructed the Progress of Manshukoku Tsushinsha in Advertising Business: Environment of Communications Enterprise at China in Early Showa Period, Katsuya KIHARA Abstract-PDF
  • Defining the "Declaration of War" at the Start of the Pacific War, Kensuke KUBO Abstract-PDF

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Intelligence, Number 18, March 2018

Special Issue : Japan-China Films in Trans-war Period

  • Japan-China Films in the Period of Trans-war: Continuation, Interruption of the History and Representation / Ni YAN
  • Essay on The Woman in Shanghai: Transition and Reorganization of Representation / Kenko KAWASAKI Abstract-PDF
  • Physical Crossing Border and Exoticism: The Secrets of Li Xianglan’s Death / Tengfei WANG (Translator: Yuta TANAKA) Abstract-PDF
  • The Flower Street (Huajie) and Signal Fires of Shanghai (Chun Jiang Yi Hen): Power, Propaganda, Cultural Workers / Yingjian SHAO Abstract-PDF
  • The Postcolonial Imagination in the Animated Panda and the Magic Serpent (Hakujaden): On the Historical Continuity of the Chinese Imagery / Gang QIN Abstract-PDF

Special Issue: Representation and Censorship in Soviet Russia

  • Russian Revolution Centennial: Representation, Censorship and Intelligence in the Soviet Era / Noriaki YOSHIDA
  • Daydream Utopia: Image Analysis of Sovkhoz Building in Eisenstein’s The General Line / Akiko HONDA Abstract-PDF
  • 【Review】On the Book of Unique Eurasian History in the Intelligence Context / Takeshi TOMITA Abstract-PDF
  • The Significance and Interpretation of Bulletin in Labor Union Activities by Bankers in 1950s Japan: Exemplifying Hiroba (Plaza) by Zenginren (Federal Bankers Union: FBU) / Takane SUZUKI Abstract-PDF
  • Establishing Process of U.S. Foreign Information Activities Documented in Edward P. Lilly Papers: Focusing on “Blank Period 1945-1953” from OWI Dissolution to USIA Establishment / Hideko YOSHIMOTO Abstract-PDF
  • Training of Japanese Linguists for Military Intelligence in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada during World War II / Kayoko TAKEDA Abstract-PDF
  • Utilizing Multi-media in Pacification and Propaganda Activities in Rural Areas of Manchukuo / Le WANG Abstract-PDF
  • 【Special Contribution】Use of Chinese Women in Japanese Military Intelligence Operations / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO Abstract-PDF

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Intelligence, Number 19, March 2019

Special Issue : Radio Broadcasting and Psychological Warfare

  • Propaganda Studies and Establishment of FBIS: Analysis on the Formation of Communication Study / Norio TAMURA Abstract-PDF
  • 【Symposium】Monitoring Act to Foreign Broadcasting by Japanese Government during and after the WW2 / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO Abstract-PDF
  • M. L. Osborne’s Role of the POW Orientation Program and Psychological Warfare as Trans-War History / Somei KOBAYASHI Abstract-PDF
  • The Network of Intellectuals Created by the Cabinet Research 0ffice of Japan under the Conservative Governments (1952-1964): Focusing on the Anti-Communist Intelligence Activities and the “Government-Commissioned” Think Tank / Toshimitsu KISHI Abstract-PDF
  • A Study of Herbert Passin and Japan Cultural Forum: Based on the “International Association for Cultural Freedom Records” in University of Chicago Library. / Kunikazu HATTORI Abstract-PDF

Special Issue: Local Magazine during the Allied Occupation Period

  • A Study of Censorship Documents and Post-censorship:Examples from Iwate Regional Magazines in the Prange Collection / Eric Siercks Abstract-PDF
  • Gekkan Kyōdō as an Incomplete Local General Literary Magazine / Takashi MORIOKA Abstract-PDF
  • Kasutori magazine “Ryoki” and Kitagawa Chiyozo “Mrs.Colonel H” / Ayumi MITSUISHI Abstract-PDF

    • Special Issue: Journalism and Propaganda in the Second Sino-Japanese War

  • Press Attache and British Propaganda in Far East Asia / Reiko TSUCHIYA Abstract-PDF
  • The Foundation of the “Lian he hua bao” and OWI’s Propaganda / Suguru UMEMURA Abstract-PDF
  • 【Research Note】Soviet Propaganda Policy Regarding Soviet-Japanese Confrontation in Northeast Asia, 1920-1940 / Sherzod Muminov Abstract-PDF
  • Japanese Cinema and the Radio During the Transition to Sound: Radio Appearances of Benshi and Film Actors / Chie NIITA Abstract-PDF
  • Control of Culture Thought by the Wartime Censor SAEKI Ikurō / Ryū MURAYAMA Abstract-PDF
  • Message from Kimono Design: Wearing Chusingura Motif to be an Intellectual Man / Yoshiko INUI Abstract-PDF

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Intelligence, Number 20, March 2020

Special Issue : From Censorship to the Prange Collection

  • 【Symposium】The Youth of Post Office Censors in CCD /Moderator: Taketoshi YAMAMOTO Abstract-PDF
  • Termination of CCD and Disposition of its Censorship Materials to University of Maryland: The Abduction of Japanese Materials / Taketoshi YAMAMOTO Abstract-PDF
  • Odyssey of an Archives: From an East Asian Collection to the Gordon W. Prange Collection / Sara Christine Snyder. Translator: Takane SUZUKI Abstract-PDF

Special Issue: Aspects of Visual Media during the Transwar Period

  • “Korean News Paper" and Propaganda Leaflets Made by OWI Honolulu/ Reiko TSUCHIYA Abstract-PDF
  • Research Note: Introduction of “Tohosha Collection”：Photographs of the Training Schools for Young People in the Territory Occupied by Japan during the Asia-Pacific War / Yuko INOUE Abstract-PDF
  • The Characteristics of Satire during the First Half of the Occupation Period of Japan and the Satirical Resistance against the Censorship: An Analysis of VAN, the Magazine of Caricatures / Yoshinobu TSUNOO Abstract-PDF
  • Formation of the Official Photographic Records: Focusing on the Documents of the Far East Command (1951 - 52) / Yoichi SATO Abstract-PDF

Special Issue: The Development of Propaganda and Media in Mainland China

  • Bookstores in Manchuria before the Establishment of Manchuria Book Distribution Co., Ltd / Yoshitaka HIBI Abstract-PDF
  • The Forum for Rural Reconstruction Embedded in the Official Local Gazette: Reform of the Zhejiang Construction in the early 1930s China / Ko SUZUKI Abstract-PDF
  • Byakuran no Uta (Song of the White Orchid) by Masao Kume and Fragmented Political Science: Exploring the Im/possibility of Melodrama / Noritsugu GOMIBUCHI Abstract-PDF
  • Analysis of Propaganda Viewed from Yongbao's Articles on Literature during the Second Sino-Japanese War (SSJW) / QU Yang Abstract-PDF
  • Japanese Army’s Propaganda in Inland China: Chinese Propaganda Newspaper Wuhan Bao, (1938 - 1945) / Qian LIU Abstract-PDF
  • On the Policy of Central Film Administration from 1949 to 1953 / Li Zhen. Translator: Shun TANIGAWA Abstract-PDF
  • Intelligence Activity of the Japanese Army in the First Half of the Meiji Period / Katsuhiko MURAKAMI Abstract-PDF
  • Jamming : The Electronic Iron Curtain in the Battle of the Airwaves from the Cold War Era to Today / Hideharu TORII Abstract-PDF

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    Intelligence, Number 21, April 2021

    Special Issue : Representations of Border Crossing in Sino-Japanese Cinema

    • The Crossing Borders in Tairiku Sanbusaku (The Continental Trilogy): Media, Genre, and Gender ／ Kenko KAWASAKI Abstract-PDF
    • The Touring Movie Theater Project by the Huabei Film Company during Japanese Occupation / Xinmin ZhangAbstract-PDF
    • Records of War and Melodramatic Pleasures: The Battle of Hong Kong in Wartime Japanese Cinema and Theater/ Yanli HanAbstract-PDF
    • Sino-Japanese Cinematic Negotiation During the Transwar Period: Yan'an, Man-ei (Manying), Dongying and Japan / Yan NiAbstract-PDF

    Special Issue : The Creation of Media Spaces in Postwar Japan

    • Popular News Magazines—Jikyoku Zasshi—in Occupied Japan / Reiko TSUCHIYAAbstract-PDF
    • An Analysis of Letters to the Radio Program Gaitō Rokuon and the Program's Role in the Democratization of Japan: The Demand for 'True' Voices of 'the Public' in the Occupation Period / Nanako OTAAbstract-PDF
    • Postwar Women's Magazines and Yukio Mishima's Critique of Dazai Osamu: Representing the Downfall of the Aristocratic Family/ Tatsuaki MOTOHASHIAbstract-PDF
    • Nauka Publishing Company and Ōtake Hirokichi during the Postwar Period : An Example of Adaptation of Soviet Culture in Occupied Japan to the 1950s / Noriaki YOSHIDAAbstract-PDF
    • An Unrealized Co-production Film Project on the Battle of Okinawa: The Negotiation Processes for US Marine Cooperation during the Preproduction of The Sun Cannot Be Shot/ Risa NAKAYAMAAbstract-PDF
    • U.S. Public Diplomacy and Okinawa during the Eisenhower Administration /Hideko YOSHIMOTOAbstract-PDF
    • CALPIS and the Formation of the Modern Japanese Family during the 1920s: Exemplifying Late-Taishō Advertisement Strategies /Takane SUZUKIAbstract-PDF
    • Kamashibai Propaganda /Taketoshi YAMAMOTOAbstract-PDF
    • Propaganda Media as Advertising Media: Commercial Advertising in Japanese Propaganda Magazines Published for Distribution in Thailand During WWII /Hiroshi KANOAbstract-PDF
    • A Case of Media Monopoly in Yamagata Prefecture's Broadcasting /Yoshiaki HIGUCHIAbstract-PDF

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    Intelligence, Number 22, March 2022

    Special Issue : Roundtable Discussion

    • The Present Situation Surrounding Archives as Academic Resource / Panelists: Kayoko TANIAI, Kazue ENOKI, Hiroshi KAMOSHIDA, Taikan ONO / Moderator: Kenko KAWASAKI

    Special Issue : Memory and Image of War in Asia

    • Media Studies and The Wartime Regime: A Review of Media History on Community and Propaganda /Kenichi HARADAAbstract-PDF
    • A Study on Images in Television Archives and Impossibility of Representation: From Monologic Record to Polylogue / Hisamitsu MIZUSHIMAAbstract-PDF
    • The Memory and Video of the Anti-Japanese War and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea: An Investigation of the Propaganda Strategy of the Communist Party of China/ Zhao XinliAbstract-PDF
    • The Propaganda and Representation of the United States and Japan in China during the Korean War / Suguru UMEMURAAbstract-PDF
    • Media and Imperialism in the International Press Conferences of the Early 20th Century / Reiko TSUCHIYAAbstract-PDF
    • [Research Note] Rethinking the History of Pictorial Magazine in Japan: Far from the History of Photojournalism / Naoki FUJIMOTOAbstract-PDF
    • A Study on the Popularity of Movies and Japanese Posters: Focusing on Film Magazines / Natsuko TAJIMAAbstract-PDF
    • Japanese Intelligence Activities against the Red Army Documented in the Diary of Yukitaka Shimauchi / Hiroyasu MIYASUGIAbstract-PDF
    • The Rise and Fall of the Military Intelligence Division in the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff / Taketoshi YAMAMOTOAbstract-PDF
    • Post-censorship by GHQ in the Case of Tanka Magazines / Makoto NAKANEAbstract-PDF
    • The Development of Poetry Journalism around 1960 and Yasukazu Fujimori: Focusing on the Poetry Magazine Gendai-shi / Kunihiko KATO Abstract-PDF

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    Intelligence, Number 23, March 2023

    • Lieven Sommen - "Four Phases of Mediatization and the Significance of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Department of Information: 1905 - 1922" Abstract-PDF
    • Shinpei NAKAJIMA - "Public Relations Activities of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Taisho Period as Reflected in the Dispatch of Warships and Military Band at the Inspection of the Reservists" Abstract-PDF
    • Natsuko TAJIMA - "A Significance of 'Ladies Home Journal' in Producing Posters during Prewar Japan" Abstract-PDF
    • Yuko OBI - "‘Our Precious Bond’ or Complicity: A Case Study of Pamphlets of Erotic Publication Series in 1920s Japan" Abstract-PDF
    • Kenko KAWASAKI - "Manchurian Railroad Representation and Ideology in Masao Kume's Song of the White Orchid: The Meaning of the Lack of Perspective on Intelligence Activities" Abstract-PDF
    • DAI Ke - "The Daily And the Non-daily in Manchuria Japanese Radio: The Center And the Margins Constructed by Lifestyle Broadcast and Live Broadcast" Abstract-PDF
    • Taketoshi YAMAMOTO - "Actual Aspects of Rumpus in Circulation Expansion of the Large Newspapers during the Sino-Japan War" Abstract-PDF
    • Susumu IMANISHI - "The Example of Accessing News during the Wartime from the Scrapbook of Newspaper: Exemplifying the Materials from Yawatahama City in Ehime Prefecture" Abstract-PDF
    • Reiko TSUCHIYA - "Radio propaganda in the Korean War from the perspective of the psychological warfare of the UN forces" Abstract-PDF
    • Noriaki YOSHIDA - "Keita Hijikata, as a Soviet Cinema Introducer during the Occupation Period and the 1950s" Abstract-PDF
    • Takane SUZUKI - "Melodrama on Biracial Children and the Memory of Occupation: Reading Emy yo (Oh, Amy) by Kazuyo Kaneko" Abstract-PDF

    Intelligence, Number 24, March 2024

    Special Issue: Rereading Hiroshi Minami

    • Taketoshi YAMAMOTO - "Trajectory of The Institute of Social Psychology Directed by Hiroshi Minami" Abstract PDF
    • Kenko KAWASAKI - "Hiroshi Minami’s Discourse during the Occupation Period: A Study of the Gordon W. Prange Collection Material" Abstract PDF
    • Koji NAMBA - "Hiroshi Minami as Media Celebrity: Examining the Articles from Newspaper and Magazine Database" Abstract PDF
    • Takane SUZUKI - "Rethinking Nihon modanizumu (Theory of Japanese Modernism): How It Has Been Adopted in Japanese Studies in the United States" Abstract PDF

      • Special Issue: Mass Media and Propaganda Operations in the Era of the Sputnik Crisis

    • Kazuko KAWAMOTO - "Sputnik for the Soviet Masses: What the Mass Media Wanted the Public to Learn" Abstract PDF
    • Akihiro YAMAMOTO - "A Study on the Social Acceptance of the Satellite Sputnik 1 in Japan in 1957; Research and analysis of print media" Abstract PDF
    • Shinsuke TOMOTSUGU - "The Impact of the Sputnik Crisis on 'Atoms for Peace' as Psychological Warfare" Abstract PDF
    • Mitsuo IKAWA - "The Sputnik Incident and Japanese Public Opinion" Abstract PDF
    • Fuminori MATSUMURA - "China’s Press Reports on the Sputnik Affairs and Its Propaganda Activities" Abstract PDF

      • Special Issue: Intelligence in Asia

    • Yasuhide YONEHAMA - "The Massacre of Chinese residents on the riverside of the Amur (the year 1900)" Abstract PDF
    • Taiji SAITO - "Another Secret Document: Matsumuro’s Memorandum" Abstract PDF
    • Shojiro SAKAMOTO - "The activities of the Nami Kikan Java Branch, naval counterintelligence agency" Abstract PDF
    • Jiro SAWADA - "The Intelligence Activities in Java by the Imperial Japanese Army Nakano School Graduates" Abstract PDF
    • Hiroshi KANDA - "Democracy Begins with Baseball: Japan’s Acceptance of Postwar U.S. Propaganda" Abstract PDF

    Intelligence, Number 25, March 2025

    Special Issue: Pamphlets in the Pre-War Era

    • Reiko TSUCHIYA - "Before and After the Army Pamphlet Incident: How Ephemera Served as Mass Media" Abstract PDF
    • Yusuke SHINDO - "Prehistory of Pamphlet Publishing during the Early Socialism in Meiji Period: “Booklet” Strategy by Toshihiko Sakai and Yubunsha" Abstract PDF
    • Yuko OBI - "Dissemination and Reception of Advertising Pamphlets for Publishing: Focusing on Sample Books (Naiyou-mihon) in the Late 1920s" Abstract PDF

      • Special Issue: The Army Affairs and Propaganda of Imperial Japan

    • Noriaki YOSHIDA - "A Sociopolitical Analysis on Urajio-Nippo (Daily Vladivostok) from 1917 to 1930" Abstract PDF
    • Shinpei NAKAJIMA - "The Japanese Navy and Expositions in the Prewar Period: From the First National Industrial Exhibition to the Warship Exposition" Abstract PDF
    • Natsuko TAJIMA - "Poster Strategy of the Ministry of the Navy in Prewar Japan" Abstract PDF

      • Special Issue: U.S.-Japan Intelligence Operations Toward China during the Wartime

    • Suguru UMEMURA - "Information Provision Operations of OWI in China" Abstract PDF
    • QU Yang - "Newspapers and News Agencies in Japanese-Occupied North China During the Second Sino-Japanese War" Abstract PDF
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    • Hideko YOSHIMOTO - "Media Representation of the Japanese Emperor under the United States Occupation of Okinawa" Abstract PDF
    • Ryo YAMAUCHI - "The Japanese Army's ‘Imperial Lineage Protection Operations’ at the End of the Asia-Pacific War: Focusing on the Preparations for the ‘Kitashirakawa-no-miya Operations’." Abstract PDF
    • Yusaku SUZUKI - "Portrait of Kagoshima in the Showa 30s in the Local Literary Magazine “Kanna”" Abstract PDF
    • Yasuyo SHIRATSUCHI - "［Research Note］The History of Beppu Chūō Market (Beppu Central Market) Established by Repatriates" Abstract PDF

    Intelligence, Number 26, March 2026

    Special Issue: New Directions in the Study of Theatre Censorship

    • Kenko KAWASAKI - "The Current Status and Challenges of Research on Theater Censorship" Abstract PDF
    • Chikashi OGAWA - "Theater Activities and Censorship in Occupied Japan" Abstract PDF
    • Wataru SUGAWA - "Shingeki Theatre and Censorship in Occupation-Era Kumamoto: Focusing on the Works of Shimokawa Enji" Abstract PDF
    • Ryoji KANEKO - "The Takarazuka Revue Traveling Troupe under Japan's Total War Regime: Performances in Miyazaki Prefecture" Abstract PDF
    • Takashi WADA - "The Arbitrariness of Script Censorship in Provinces During the Pre-War Showa Era: On the Case of Kansai Proletarian Theater" Abstract PDF

    Special Issue: The Eclipse of Media in the Showa Period

    • Noriaki YOSHIDA - "Re-examination of the “Russian Spy” Allegations Against Seigo Nakano: The 51st Imperial Diet of 1926 and Siberia and Manchuria" Abstract PDF
    • Takashi FUJITA - "The “Kido Incident”: The Reality of Internal Factional Conflict at the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun" Abstract PDF
    • Menghui CAI - "Kurara Murobuse’s Translation Activities in Wartime Nanjing: A Study through the Examination of Source Texts, Publication Context, and Translation Strategies" Abstract PDF
    • Reiko TUCHIYA - "The Tokyo Gazette (1937-1942): The English-Language Edition of the Government Bulletin Shūhō" Abstract PDF
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    • Kenichi HARADA - "Visual Media and Folklore Studies: The Case of Kunio Yanagita" Abstract PDF
    • Suguru UMEMURA - "Victory over Japan Day in Lüshun and Dalian: A Study Based on Shihua Bao" Abstract PDF
    • Kozue YOSHINO - "The Ban, Its Lifting, and the Reissue of Shina no Yoru: The Realities of Popular Song Censorship in Occupied Japan" Abstract PDF
    • Naoki FUJIMOTO - "［Research Note］The Emperor's eyes as Midas Touch: The Beginning and the end of Imperial Branding in Modern Publishing advertisemen" Abstract PDF