@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00029033,
 author = {河西, 秀哉 and Kawanishi, Hideya},
 journal = {JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Japan’s defeat in the Asia-Pacific War in August 1945 triggered the biggest crisis the nation’s imperial system had ever faced. Questions arose regarding Emperor Showa’s responsibility for the war, and there were calls domestically and overseas for him to abdicate. For some time, it was unknown whether the imperial system itself would survive. The mass media was one element used to deal with this crisis. As a result of information spread by the mass media, the prewar image held by the emperor and the imperial system—that of being militaristic and a symbol of the national polity (kokutairon) ideology—was transformed after the defeat; the emperor became a symbol of peace and Japanese culture. The imperial system in place before and during the war was portrayed as something unique, and the issue of Emperor Showa’s responsibility for the war was evaded through the mass media’s reportage. In this sense, the mass media was also a political actor that helped to prevent the emperor from being held responsible for the war and to maintain the imperial system. This paper is one attempt to examine the cooperation between the mass media and this sort of symbolic imperial system. It will focus on the journalists who covered the imperial family. These journalists, who were often close to the emperor, wrote many articles that emphasized his humanity and attempted to foster public support for the symbolic imperial system. The mass media’s reporting provided the “facts” on the symbolic emperor system.},
 pages = {86--99},
 title = {敗戦直後の天皇制の危機とマスメディア},
 volume = {6},
 year = {2015}
}