Abstract
The Shoho no Radio (once subtitled the 'Beginner's Radio') which was the earliest monthly radio magazine mainly for boys and girls (referred to here simply as 'youngsters') in Japan had first published in 1948 by Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing Co., Ltd., and had continued until 1992. This study focused on the Beginning Period (1948-1952) of the Shoho no Radio and analyzed the contents of introductory articles for youngsters written and drawn by Hiroshi IZUMI, a Kagaku Kiko Ka (a Science Writer/Contributor), who was one of the main and leading contributors of the Shoho no Radio contemporaneously, and clarified some characteristics of his works, and then, clarified their contemporary educational meanings in Japan. Through the analyses of the contents, synthetically, it is clarified that a series of Hiroshi IZUMI's works in that period had characteristics with his careful consideration to the selection, the composition and the arrangement of the contents of articles related to knowledge and understanding of youngsters and to a certain sequence or system of the contents of an introductry electronics technology. Therefore, it seems that the Beginning Period of the Shoho no Radio had such important educational meanings for youngsters not only in respect of creating and enlarging the opportunities for the study of electronics technology, that was discontent with the contemporary school education, but also in respect of the complements to the contemporary realities of school education in an aspect of the offering contents of articles.
