General Description

  1. From September 1945 to April 1952, Japan was under occupation by Allied forces led by the United States. Under the democratization policy, what were the actual changes caused by the control and censorship of the media during the occupation? Also, how was the information war over the Korean Peninsula carried out?

    This book first traces the development of non-mainstream news media, such as exposé current magazines, sports newspapers, and university newspapers, from historical sources, and then examines the policies surrounding publishing and the CIE library, revealing how media policies during the occupation were perceived by people at the time. The book then examines the state of intelligence (information analysis and counterintelligence) during the occupation, using examples from major media reports on the Korean War, propaganda leaflets and propaganda broadcasts as psychological warfare by the Allied forces.

    The impact of the occupation period on Japanese media and the relationship between Japan's information policy and institutions and the occupation period are vividly depicted using historical materials held by the U.S. National Archives.

    table of contents
    Preface: Looking at occupation-era media through multiple eyes

    Part 1 Media during the Occupation

    Chapter 1 Current affairs magazines during the occupation period
    1 History of “Jibutsu Magazine”
    2 Current affairs magazines during the occupation period
    3. Various exposé-related current magazines

    Chapter 2 University newspapers during the occupation
    1 Media called “university student newspaper”
    2. Overview of university student newspapers up until defeat
    3 University newspapers and student movements during the occupation period
    4 Analysis and evaluation of university student newspapers by the occupation forces
    5 Control through censorship and paper allocation
    6 University Newspaper Theory by Inboden

    Chapter 3 Sports newspapers and baseball events in the early days
    1. The second “baseball crazy era” and the media
    2 Birth of a women's baseball team
    3 Women's Professional Baseball League and "Nikkan Sports"
    4 Movie Jinjin Baseball and “Sports Nippon”

    Chapter 4 The medium of the CIE library during the occupation period
    1. Early CIE library and users
    2. Formation of CIE library network
    3 CIE Library after the Korean War
    4 CIE library in memory

    Part 2: Intelligence and propaganda during the occupation

    Chapter 5 Occupation Army G-2 History Division and Former Japanese Military Group
    1 Establishment of the History Division of the Second General Staff Division (G-2) and the Institute for Military History Records and Research
    2 Former soldiers gathered in the G-2 History Division
    3. The future of military history and intelligence

    Chapter 6 Intelligence Activities by the Occupation Forces Translation and Interpretation Service (ATIS)
    1 ATIS at the beginning of the occupation
    2 Central Interrogation Center and Interrogation of Demobilized Persons
    3 Review of ATIS activities and the Ringer Project
    4. The end of the Korean War and ATIS

    Chapter 7 Reporting of the Korean War as psychological warfare against Japan
    1 “Forgotten” coverage of the Korean War
    2. The beginning of reporting on the Korean War
    3 CIE directives for NHK News
    4. Attack on neutrality theory and “ideological warfare”
    5 Korean War-related public opinion poll conducted by CIE and newspaper companies
    6 Censorship of military correspondents
    [Translated materials] Press Advisory Department Censorship Standards

    Chapter 8: Korean War propaganda leaflets
    1. The beginning of psychological warfare in the Korean War
    2. First period--initial advertising flyers
    3. Second period: Chinese military participation in the war and organizational reorganization
    4 Third period: propaganda leaflets after the armistice talks
    5 Japanese involvement and North Korean leaflets

    Chapter 9 Korean War Radio Propaganda
    1. Early radio and psychological warfare policy
    2 Radio intelligence after China entered the war
    3 Radio propaganda by the United Nations Forces
    4 Japanese cooperation and Operation Fade Out

    Chapter 10 Psychological warfare in the Korean War and its aftermath as seen in the Riosunov documents
    1 Radio Busan at the beginning of the Korean War
    2 Creation of broadcast manuscript by Riosunov
    3 Interview with POWs
    4 Psychological warfare radio news
    5 Psychological warfare after the armistice

    Final chapter: never-ending psychological warfare

    First appearance list
    Afterword

    Item index
    person name index

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