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Who Reads Shashi? The Case of the Hiroshima Regional Newspaper

Shashi: the Journal of Japanese Business and Company History

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Title Who Reads Shashi? The Case of the Hiroshima Regional Newspaper
 
Creator Sherif, Ann
 
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Description The company history of a newspaper company raises new questions about the genre of company histories. Who reads them? What features should readers and researchers be aware of when using them as a source? This article examines the shashi of the Chûgoku Shinbun, the Hiroshima regional newspaper. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 were significant because of their perceived role in bringing World War II to an end and in signaling the start of the nuclear age. Most research to date has emphasized the role of national newspapers and the international media in informing the public about the extent of the damage and generating a framework within which to understand. I compare the representation of three key events in the Chûgoku Shinbun company history (shashi) to those in two national newspapers (Asahi and Yomiuri), as well as the ways that the Hiroshima company’s 100th and 120th year self-presentations reveal important concerns of the region and the nation, and motivations in going public with its shashi. These comparisons will reveal some of the merits and limits of using shashi in research. This article is part of a larger study on the work of the influence of regional press and publishers on literature in twentieth-century Japan.   
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
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Date 2012-12-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://shashi.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/shashi/article/view/4
10.5195/shashi.2012.4
 
Source Shashi: the Journal of Japanese Business and Company History; Vol 1, No 1 (2012): Shashi Issue 1
社史：日本経営史学雑誌; Vol 1, No 1 (2012): Shashi Issue 1
2169-0820
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://shashi.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/shashi/article/view/4/67