事実統計局（ＯＦＦ）および初期戦時情報局（ＯＷＩ）の情報提供と編集介入を中心に

An Analysis of the Policies of the Office of Facts and Figures（OFF）and Office of War Information（OWI）

Abstract

During World War II, the U.S. government uprooted more than 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and put them into inland camps. This incident has been examined from various aspects by a number of scholars. But very little has been written about how the federal government treated the press of Japanese Americans. This study analyzes how the Office of Facts and Figures (OFF) and Office of War Information (OWI) made use of the Japanese “enemy language” newspapers for information dissemination during the earliest phase of war. It also investigates how these agencies elicited voluntary cooperation, which was de facto self-censorship, from Japanese newspapers.