This paper surveyed the books and the paper about publication from the Meiji era to during the war which announced in 00s, and provides trends and future possibility of historical research of modern publication.

This essay attempts to review the articles published in Studies on Publishing, and related academic journals and prize-winning books on Society of Japan Publications Award from 2000 to 2012. The result of its survey shows that “content studies” on magazines are improved in by reading audience environments’ investigations, aggregatesurvey data analysis, and content analysis,while it is difficult to find researches on magazine concepts (what is the magazine).

This Paper focuses on the Digital Publishing Studies in 2000’s. I review 17 articles of Digital Publishing in ‘Studies on Publishing (SHUPPAN KENKYU)’. This study found that most of the articles merely reported market trends or made commentary on Digital Publishing. This means that the Digital Publishing study needs further theological papers and it is in the way of establishing its research ground as was in 10 years ago.

This study analyzes bestsellers listed in Shuppan shihyo nenpo (Annual publication indices) by genre and publisher and examined trends in bestsellers that are “telesellers” (books written by TV celebrities and books on whichi TV programs are baced). The 1,247 bestsellers published from 1946 to 2010 were the subject of the study.

A genre-specific analysis baced on the Nippon Decimal Classification revealed that titles in followed by the Social Sciences and Philosophy categories. In terms of bestseller publishers, Kodansha ranked first (114 titles or 9.1%), with Kobunsha and Shinchosha following. Telesellers made up 18.7% of all bestsellers (234 titles), and thir share is on the rise.

In this investigation research, the way publication education should be is considered from syllabus organization of subjects relating to publication at universities and attitude survey of educators in charge of the subjects. The problem lies in the contents of related subjects taught at universities. And by examining the problem awareness of educators in charge of the subjects for publication education, and considering the system and problem of publication education at universities, the positioning of publication education in the curriculum of media education at universities is questioned.

A legal system should exist by considering welfare of the society as a whole, especially including consumers. Concerning copyright-system, it is advocated an economical analysis viewpoint, such as Law and Economics.

This paper investigates the international trade of license in Japanese publisher, taking up manga as an example. The cultural and political, economic globalization have also affected overseas deployment of manga. This paper consider deployment of manga in globalization, analyzing the international harmonization about intellectual property and the enforcement against piracy, the expansion of digital piracy, the overseas production of manga.

The earthquakes stroke damages to the industry leaving more than ten million dolJars loss for its products alone. Since the pulp factories were seriously ruined, the production" of publication was desperate. Also the distribution was limited because of the lack of fuel and the cuts off of the traffic networks around Northeastern coast.

People concerned in publishing took brave actions to overcome the crisis.

Distributors and Publishers cooperated to help the bookstores in stricken area by taking care of the returned books. Also the industry bunt a Reconstruct[on Fund to support the stricken area.

In this paper, We discuss the necessity for electronic publishing study. Focusing on “the National Diet Library’s new system for acquisition of networked electronic publications”, the relation between the Japanese publication business in a turning point and the National Diet Library is considered.

The magazine named “To-yo” was first published in April 1901 by the Duke Atsumaro Konoe who was chairman of the House of Lords. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the historical role of this magazine. The feature of this magazine is an Asianism. The “Toyo” after the merger as “Nihon-shuho”, in particular, was published an editorial urging the Russo-Japanese war.

Percy edited Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) on the basis of modern sophistication, with little regard for its old original source―his Folio Manuscript. In contrast, Ritson respected historical documents without sophistication. This paper focuses on the differences between Percy’s attempt to exercise his imagination in editing ancient poems and Ritson’s effort to present them as they were.

When a tribe of “strangely-dressed” youth, called Miyuki-zoku, appeared in the streets of Ginza in the summer of 1964, contrary to today’s general understanding, they were negatively viewed by the print media, including Heibon Punch, and VAN. This study shows the roles played by Heibon Punch and VAN from the 1980s in changing the social memory of the Miyuki-zoku and reconstructing them in an affirmative manner as a youth culture.