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The Construction Of Collective Memory Of The World War ? By Japanese Media

Posted on:2018-08-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y QinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2428330512982743Subject:Communication
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In 2015,to the 70th anniversary of the World Anti-Fascist War,China held the parade marking to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.This great International media affair aroused domestic and foreign media's high attention and recalled the collective memory about World War ?.As we all know,present era's collective memory mainly comes from media.Mass media reappearing,recording,shifting and reorganizing the incidents become the main channel for current society to reorganize collective memory and forge national recognition.As the vanquished country,Japanese media how to demonstrate World War ?history through topic setting and framework selection,to forge national "collective memory" about World War ? and to formulate the collective recognition about World War? history are the focuses of the paper.This paper takes Japaneses mainstream newspaper-Asahi Shimbun as research targets,2015 reports about memorializing World War ? as the research samples,adopts content analysis method and analytical approach to make deep studies and analysis.It tries to collect data from information source,discussion topic,report number,length,news picture,literature types or forms and other variable factors,combines news headlines to analyze news reports' high frequent words,topic sentences,to to sketch the framework about World War ? collective memories in Asahi Shimbun's relative reports and to show the structure features.According to research,as the important mechanism to formulate war memory,Asahi Shimbun's World War ? memorial reports through wounds carrier groups--Witnesses of War,applies reappearing,shielding and prominent methods to forge World War ?collective memories.It applies trauma discourse narration method,selective retention World War ? historical realities to show unilateral victims' memories.Meanwhile,in the World War ? relative real reports,it presses ahead the recovery about war memory,guides the audiences cognition by remark sentences and adopts responsibility framework to reflect assaulters' responsibilities form the perspective of national level.Memories about World War ? show diversified trends.During the World War ? memorial reports,Asahi Shimbun poses different attention degrees to USA,Korea,China and others and different reportage frameworks to cater to current profits demands.In the reports,Asahi Shimbun mostly utilizes cooperation framework to Korea and establish Japanese-Korean friendly cooperation alliance ties to promote their historical reconciliation.For USA and China,it always applied the conflict frameworks to stress the conflicts between Okinawa people&American Army,Okinawa people&Japanese central government which could connect Chinese historical issues with democracy and human rights issues.It aims to stress Chinese human rights about expression freedom and religion freedom,describing China as a police state.
Keywords/Search Tags:Asahi Shimbun, Monumental Report of World War ?, Collective Memory, Reporting Framework
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