著者

水野 剛也

出版者

日本マス・コミュニケーション学会

雑誌

マス・コミュニケーション研究 (ISSN:13411306)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.65, pp.116-132, 2004

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During World War II, the U.S. government uprooted more than 110,000Japanese Americans from the West Coast and put them into inland camps. Thisincident has been examined from various aspects by a number of scholars. Butvery little has been written about how the federal government treated thepress of Japanese Americans. This study analyzes how the Office of Facts andFigures (OFF) and Office of War Information (OWI) made use of the Japanese"enemy language" newspapers for information dissemination during the earliestphase of war. It also investigates how these agencies elicited voluntary cooperation,which was de facto self-censorship, from Japanese newspapers.