著者

金 命柱

出版者

法政大学大学院 国際日本学インスティテュート専攻委員会

雑誌

国際日本学論叢 (ISSN:13491954)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, pp.42-23, 2012-03-23

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In this thesis "The Occupation years (1945-1952)" I compared andanalyzed Christmas in Japan and in the USA, paying attention not only to theChristmas influenced by the leading role of the occupying US forces,butalso to the way the Japanese,especially Japanese children,spent Christmasunder the American occupation. It became thus clear that in the occupiedJapan Christmas was celebrated with some political intentions by theoccupying side and in the social relations between the occupying and theoccupied sides. Through this,it was implied that Christmas had a bigreligious and cultural significance in Japan at the time.Obviously Christmas is not the only example of a custom,habit,culture,idea, religion or system from western societies that has established in Japan,it is one among innumerable others. From an international point of view,understanding how Japanese culture is changing in contact with the culturesof other countries and rethinking the position of Japan is an importantacademic mission to be fulfilled by the International Japanese Studies.Thisis what this thesis humbly tried to do.