Reforming the Systems of Reading for the Greater East Asia：Thought War and Book Distribution

Abstract

This study elucidates cultural controls within Japan, generation of culture for overseas audiences, and the association between the two by considering the dissemination of literature among readers. The findings can be broadly summarized in the following two points：First, we can view the transmission and propagandization of culture not only from the perspective of the sender, that is, the writer, but also the persons or organizations that teach, introduce, translate, and disseminate it. Second, it is possible to clarify the association between academic knowledge and cultural controls within Japan and external cultural manipulation.