War and Media in the Twentieth Century Historical Sociological Studies of Information Culture in the Interwar Period

本项目研究和分析了从满洲事变到第二次世界大战期间的战争宣传和媒体报道。它涉及来自众多研究领域的学者之间的合作，包括社会学，历史，媒体研究，艺术史，电影史，设计史和摄影史。其主要组成部分之一是根据社会信息和通信研究所保存的大量战争宣传材料制作一个视觉数据库。大部分基本数据输入工作和外文资料的翻译现已完成。还对日本国内外的其他宣传材料收藏进行了调查，以便组织一次以战时宣传为主题的公开展览。将来，我们希望在这个项目现有成果的基础上，将产生的数据库纳入一个更大的数字档案系统。

This project has pursued the study and analysis of war propaganda and media representation during the period from the Manchurian Incident to the Second World War. It involves cooperation among scholars from numerous fields of research, including sociology, history, media studies, art history, film history, design history, and photographic history. One of its main components is the production of a visual database based on the large collection of war propaganda material preserved at the Institute of Socio-information and Communication Studies. Much of the basic data entry work and translation of foreign language materials has now been completed. Surveys of other collections of propaganda material both in Japan and abroad have also been conducted, with a view to organizing a public exhibition on the theme of wartime propaganda. In future, we hope to build on the existing achievements of this project and incorporate the resulting database into a larger digital archive system.