著者

鈴村 裕輔

出版者

法政大学国際日本学研究所

雑誌

国際日本学 : 文部科学省21世紀COEプログラム採択日本発信の国際日本学の構築研究成果報告集 = International Japan studies : annual report (ISSN:18838596)

巻号頁・発行日

no.14, pp.65-75, 2017-01

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Tōyōkeizai Shimpōsha, the publisher of one of the prominent economic journals in Japan the Tōyōkeizai Shimpō, started to publish a new English journal entitled The Oriental Economist (TOE) in May 1934. It was part of the memorial project for a 40th anniversary of Tōyōkeizai Shimpōsha. TOE had an important role to be a source of accurate information for all nations of the world regarding economic, political and social conditions in Japan and the Far East and to criticise world affairs from the standpoint of Eastern people and thus invite fair criticism from the Western public. It was a result of a presence of TOE's Chief Editor, Ishibashi Tanzan (1884-1973). Ishibashi who was the President of Tōyōkeizai Shimpōsha and the Chief Editor of the Tōyōkeizai Shimpō, and a famous economist with his advocacy for an international cooperation and economic liberalism aimed to give a fair and impartial view of economic conditions in Japan and the Orient, free from nationality race and creed. In this, paper we examined situations surrounding TOE before and after starting and Ishibashi's role and contribution to TOE.