著者

井上 泰浩 INOUE Yasuhiro イノウエ ヤスヒロ

出版者

広島市立大学国際学部

雑誌

広島国際研究 (ISSN:13413546)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.103-127, 2006

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This study examines how major newspapers in the world covered the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by referring to the hegemony theory. This theory suggests that media content, especially international coverage, is influenced by historical views, the dominant public opinions, and the ideology of those in power in society. Qualitative content analysis is mainly used for this study. Data for this study consist of articles published between August 5 and 8, 2005, in newspapers in eight countries / region (China, France, Germany, Russia, South Korea, the U.K., the U.S., and the Arabic region). The findings generally confirm the existence of bias and differences in Hiroshima coverage across countries / region. Western European (France, Germany, and the U.K) newspapers criticized the bombing for aiming at civilians and presented it as an important moral lesson. American newspapers, on the other hand, generally depicted the bombing as a justifiable past event which has little significance in the present day. Chinese and South Korean newspapers focused mainly on the responsibility of the Japanese for having starting the war that ended up with the bombing. Different coverage on Hiroshima could be attributed to the difference in historical relations to and public sentiment on Japan, and other ideological factors.

著者

繁沢 敦子 SHIGESAWA Atsuko シゲサワ アツコ

出版者

広島市立大学国際学部 (Hiroshima City University, Faculty of International Studies)

雑誌

広島国際研究 = Hiroshima Journal of International Studies (ISSN:13413546)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.19-37, 2012-11-30

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The purpose of this essay is to discuss if Hiroshima, John Hersey's famous account of six survivors in atom-bombed Hiroshima, really describes the "full-range of the bomb's effects" as often believed. It discusses how Hersey might not have been entirely free in expression or in disseminating information, considering the popular sentiment and the issue of national security at a time when censorship was still common among publishers.This author assumes that Hersey, while describing a certain range of atomic horrors, might have refrained from discussing what were considered then as taboo: residual radiation. Hersey might also have avoided talking about the moral aspects of the dropping of the bomb, to stay in line with the official narrative and overwhelming public sentiment. However, it was important that the account, as a warning to the world, reach as many people as possible, and it has served this purpose to a great success.In an effort to prove these assumptions, the author explores the social and literary space at the time Hiroshima was published. She also compares Hiroshima with various materials in the John Hersey Papers at Yale University library in an attempt to determine to what extent and for what purpose Hersey might have used these materials, especially the Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, which was just published when Hersey was writing his account.

著者

中島 正博 NAKASHIMA Masahiro ナカシマ マサヒロ

出版者

広島市立大学国際学部

雑誌

広島国際研究 (ISSN:13413546)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, pp.177-192, 2003

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This paper considers a man-and-nature relation through a hunter-gatherers lifestyle in the Japanese prehistoric Jomon period. The Jomon people developed their lifestyle by hunting and gathering natural resources in the forests, rivers and seas in the Neolithic Age, when the forest widely regenerated after the glacial period. They utilized natural resources not only by collecting resources but also growing and processing them. Because of these active operations upon the nature, there was strain between man and the nature due to overuses and among peoples for the access to the resources. The Jomon people developed communities where a social order was imbedded to sustain the nature and people's life, i. e. , coexistence of the nature and man. By considering hunter-gatherers lifestyles in the past and present, it is thought that the Jomon people looked upon the nature as cyclic lives repeating life and death and as well as partners whom they had to associate or even negotiate with. Since nature's prosperity was vital for the people's life, they associated with the nature to enhance her prosperity by spiritual attitude of thank, awe and respect with such an expression as offerings. These are Jomon people's views on the nature and life and on their man-and-nature relation.

著者

井上 泰浩 Brislin Tom INOUE Yasuhiro BRISLIN Tom イノウエ ヤスヒロ ブリスリン トム

出版者

広島市立大学国際学部

雑誌

広島国際研究 (ISSN:13413546)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.179-194, 2005

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This study examines the underlying values and practices in journalistic policies and decision-making between Japan and the United States on whether to identify youth offenders in serious, capital crimes. Benchmarks in youth crime coverage, particularly in Japan, are examined. Comparative data is presented from a survey of U. S. and Japanese journalists on factors that might influence naming of youth offenders, and on opinions regarding the handling of specific youth crime cases. The findings confirm the conventional wisdom that Japanese journalism remains consistent in its collective policy to not name juveniles under the age of 20 in any crime story, regardless of the severity of the crime. U. S. journalists, on the other hand, are constant in their inconsistency in terms of a policy on naming juveniles and seem to have adopted no policy, or no minimum age, as their policy. The distinction could be attributed to the difference in legal systems, journalistic values, and realities of juvenile crime between Japan and the U.S.