Teaching Japanese in Singapore with Media and Japanese Textbooks during the Japanese Occupation

本研究旨在通过报纸、广播等大众传播媒介，揭示日据时期新加坡日语教学的特点。关于战时新加坡日语教学的研究一直集中在教科书和语言政策的分析上，而媒体在促进日语方面的作用却鲜有人关注。这项研究旨在考察英文报纸《Syonan Times》(1942.2.21-1945.9.4)上的语言专栏《日本课》(Nippon Lesson)1942.2.21-1944.10.4和《Radio Nippon-Go Lesson》(1942.4.15-1943.7.13)的内容和结构。根据调查结果，完成了这两个专栏的索引以及报纸上出现的其他与日语普及有关的重要文章，并出版了(见。第11项)。初步分析表明，《日本课》的三个系列有一个共同的特点，即介绍的词汇与日常生活有关；语法项目安排得系统化；所有的词汇和句子都有英文翻译；讲解和发音笔记都是英文的。这些栏目的特点最好地体现了日本军政府强调“简单实用的日本人”的政策，研究结果将为媒体教授日语的研究开辟一条新的道路，并为将其与战时日本占领领土上出版的日语教科书进行比较研究奠定基础。

The purpose of this study was to reveal the characteristics of teaching Japanese in Singapore during the Japanese occupation by means of mass media such as newspaper and radio broadcasting. Research on teaching Japanese in Singapore during the war time has been focused on the analysis of textbooks and language policies and the role of media in promoting the language has received little attention.This study aims at examining the contents and structure of the language columns, 'Nippon Lesson' 1942.2.21-1944.10.4) and 'Radio Nippon-Go Lesson' (1942.4.15-1943.7.13) published in the English newspaper, the Syonan Times(1942.2.21-1945.9.4). Based on the results, an index of the two columns and other important articles related to Japanese language popularization appeared in the newspaper was completed and published (see. Item 11). The preliminary analysis showed that the three series of 'Nippon Lesson' shared a common feature that vocabularies introduced are related to everyday life; grammar items were arranged in a systematic way; all vocabularies and sentences were provided with English translation; explanation and pronunciation notes were all in English. These characteristics of the columns best reflected the Japanese Military Administration's policy that 'simple and pragmatic Japanese' was emphasized.The results of the study will provide important clues for paving a new path to the research of teaching Japanese with media and serve as a cornerstone for pursuing comparative study with Japanese textbooks published in Japanese occupied territories during the war time.