The Sociological and Historical Study on the Change of Media and Youth in the Post-war Era in Japan

为了促进战后日本青年亚文化的研究，本项目旨在根据最著名的社会学家之一Erving Goffman所著的《框架分析：一篇关于经验的组织的文章》，重新思考研究青年亚文化的术语和方法，收集档案，即杂志过刊、报纸文章和视觉片段，并在此基础上进行分析。在这两年里，我写了四篇论文，《关于战后时代的青年亚文化》系列，以及关于这个主题的五个笔记。除了这些论文，我以前也写过一些论文。通过写作，我研究了近11种青年亚文化，它们代表了每一个时代的潮流和时代精神。现在，我正在把所有这些论文汇编成一本书，通过编辑和重写它们，我想把我的观点更清楚地表达出来。我的看法是，上世纪70年代末，S不仅在青年文化上，而且在整个日本社会都发生了划时代的变化。然后，我想把这一任期内所学到的知识应用到我参与的一些项目中。首先，在日本研究国际研究中心开展了《商业电影中的物质文化与信息文化》项目。组织这一研究项目的一本书正在编辑中，将于今年出版。第二，“电视文化传媒史”项目以科学研究助学金(C)为基础。作为这个项目的结果，一本书也将在今年出版。最后，“地方博览会文化史”项目是以科学研究助学金(C)为基础的。在这个项目开始之前，关于日本青年亚文化的书籍很少。我认为这为青年亚文化的跨文化比较研究奠定了基础和发展了可能。

To develop the study on youth subcultures during the postwar era in Japan, this project was intended to reconsider the terminology and methodology for studying them depending on "Frame Analysis : An Essay on the Organization of Experience"written by Erving Goffman who is one of most famous sociologists, to gather archives, i.e. magazine back issues, newspaper articles and visual footages, and to make an analysis based on them. During this two year, I wrote four papers, ‘Concerning Youth Subcultures in the Postwar Era' series and five notes concerning this theme. Added to these papers, I had written some papers previously. Through writing them, I had examined almost eleven youth subcultures which represented the trends and Zeitgeist at each time. Now, I'm compiling all these papers into a book and by means of editing and rewriting them, I would like to make my opinion clearer. My opinion is that in the late 1970's there was an epoch-making change not only in youth culture but also in Japanese society totally.And then, I would like to apply the knowledge I got during this term to some projects I participated. Firstly, "Material Culture and Information Culture in Commercial Films" project had been done at the International Research Center of Japanese Studies. A book organizing this research project is edited now and will be published in this year. Secondly "The Media History of Television Culture" project had been based Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (C). A book as a result of this project will be published in this year, too. Finally, "Cultural History of Expositions in Local Regions" project is based on Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (C).Previous to the start of this project, there were few books about Japanese youth subcultures. I think it has made the basis and developed the possibility to cross-cultural comparative studies of youth subcultures.