City, Mutual Aid Groups, and Mass Media

An Exploration of the Social Contexts that Supported Yuji Horii's Activities during his time as a college student

Abstract

This paper investigates and analyzes the college student days of Yuji Horii, who was an obscure university student moving to Tokyo from Awaji Island, and shows that mutual aid groups of university manga graduates, mass media (newspaper, publishers, TV stations) that provided them with job opportunities as freelance writers, and the city of Tokyo, where many universities and mass media were concentrated, played an important role in supporting Horii's activities.