Abstract
The first installment saw how Fuji Tada and Mitoji Nishimoto developed self-awareness and joined the Japan Broadcasting Corporation.
Tada, who had been making poems criticizing Japan for rushing towards imperialism as if mimicking the Western great powers, continued composing poetry even after entering the broadcaster while he busied himself with producing lecture broadcasts. For Tada, being a poet and working as a Japan Broadcasting Corporation official were not contradicting.
Nishimoto who had studied progressive education in the United States went into academia and occasionally lectured on international peace on radio. Although his radio lecture program was forcibly terminated by the Ministry of Communications, he did not lose confidence in the broadcaster partly due to the earnest reaction of its Kansai Bureau (BK). Consequently, Nishimoto joined the Japan Broadcasting Corporation and launched school broadcasting to pursue his desire to spread new education through broadcasting.
Tada and Nishimoto were supposed to achieve self-realization at broadcasting sites. However, the times changed dramatically. In the era of warfare, from the Manchurian Incident, to the Second Sino-Japanese War, and to the Pacific War, the mission of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation had become to mobilize the people to fight, as it had turned to a propaganda machine of military and government authorities. Against this backdrop, how did Tada and Nishimoto live as organization persons? The second installment looks into their anguish and inner conflicts while portraying the reality of the war-time cultural broadcasts.
