The purpose of this study was to make clear the fundamental character of Japanese literature’s discourse formation. Through examination of definite Japanese literature from the Heian period to the contemporary period, I was able to suggest that the fundamental character of Japanese literature’s discourse formation was its tendency to subsume. It never arranges components under firm principles which are well supported clear views of the world and theme. It liberally adopts each fragment while letting them keep their individuality. It may safely be said that Japanese literature has a unique receptivity which appreciates each fragment as they are. It receives elements of different in kind without excluding them. I feel that this finding has greatly contributed to the field of stud

With the start of the American occupation of Japan, control of the censorship apparatus shifted to GHQ/SCAP(General Headquarters/Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers), which regulated public expressions in Japan from1945through1949.A Closer examination of the Prange Collection and others reveals another dimension to the Occupation period. They show that responses to censorship were not at all uniform, and that multiple intertwining factors underlined the discourse of the Occupation period : the thoughts of writers, the policies and actions of the publishers and editors, and the decisions of the censors

This research project aimed to reconfirm unconscious intension of the Japanese people who achieved construction of post-war Japanese society, by verifying on foreign words imported from the U.S., newly invented Japanese coinage from English, vulgarized, abbreviated words or jargon which were peculiar during confused era, from the occupation period of Japan after being defeated and under the background of one's sense of values were revolutionized. The fruits of this project were edited as the final report which include about 100 words in occupation era, and will be published on commercial base during year 2010.

In this research, we tried to grasp synthetically the publishing company of the Taisho and Showa term, and a literary trend. In particular, a publishing company called Kinseido was observed. Masuo Fukuoka founded this publishing company in the middle of Taisho, and it had deep relation with literary activities of those days and writers. And many interesting series and magazines were published. First, we performed investigation and collection in the library or the antiquarian bookshop, in order to store the fundamental data about the publication of Kinseido. And the database of the Kinseido publication was created. This is still insufficient and it is necessary to continue investigation from now on also. However, this data has a big meaning as fundamental data for considering the publication activities of Kinseido. Moreover, we collected the data about the publication activities of Masuo Fukuoka, a founder, and Kinseido. From these data, the publication activities of Kinseido were able to be considered synthetically and on many sides. By these trials, the actual condition of the publication activities of Kinseido became clear concretely. And the relation between a publishing company and a writer also became clear. We are one side of such investigation and wrote the paper about publication of the Taisho and Showa term, and literature. The head investigator mainly announced the relation between the "literary world" from Taisho to the Showa term, and literary comment. The investigator mainly announced the relation between neosensualist's writers and publication media. We were sure of the validity of this theme. We are planning extending investigation and research about other publishing company and publishers based on this research

The purpose of this research was to verify the Japanese literature, culture of the 20th century and the relation of the media synthetically. The next various points became clear by the joint research on two years.
1. Modern literature circulates by the letterpress printing such as a book and a magazine. It found that we had to verify the actual condition of the letterpress printing concretely.
2. Letterpress printing is not a universal medium, but it is one form of the transitional media. Then, it could confirm that the decline of today's literature related to the decline of the type medium.
3. It found that it was important to pay attention to not only letterpress printing but also an image expression, the recitation, and so on.
4. It found that popular literature, a monster film, and so on were the important clues to grasp a cultural modern phenomenon.
5. It could confirm that the consciousness concerned with the researcher's, own discrimination and the gender had to be asked to it to verify a matter of media.
But, because the range of this theme was wide, we couldn't complete all research in these two years. From now on, we want to continue the research about this theme.

明治期における新聞投書欄の調査・検討を通して、近代文学成立期の様相を明らかにするとこを目的とした本研究課題については、昨年度の科学研究費(奨励研究A)の交付を受け、基礎資料の収集と整備に努めてきた。本年度はこれを継続、発展させるとともに、目録・索引の作成に重点をおくことを研究計画の中心に揚げて取り組んできたが、以下にその実績の概要を報告したい。まず文献資料の収集については、昨年度に引き続いて「読売新聞」と「国民新聞」を主な対象とし、「読売新聞」については主に国立国会図書館、早稲田大学現代政治経済研究所に所蔵されているマイクロフィルムの閲覧、「国民新聞」については縮刷復刻版(日本図書センタ-)の購入を継続した。これによって、少なくとも両紙については、それぞれの創刊号から明治末までの全紙面に目を通したことになり、投書欄の変遷を含めて新聞の全体像を把握できたことは、今後の研究を進めるうえで大きな収穣であった。なお、これらの投書欄から文筆活動の第一歩を踏み出した作家が数多く寄稿し、明治文学に大きな位置を占める『早稲田文学』復刻版など、今年度は購入すべき重要資料が多く、設備備品費(図書費)が当初の予定額よりやや増えたことをお断りしたい。次に目録の調査によっても、知られていない近代作家の初期作品、習ら発表誌面の制約によるものであり、残っている「読売新聞」の目録を完備させることを次の具体的な課題としいた。あわせて、これらの成果を踏まえながら、新聞投書蘭の文学史的位置づけと、個々の作家活動との関わりを更に深く論究することが、今後継続すべき研究課題である