This paper examines the ideal image of the bride constructed in the bridal magazine “Adult Zexy”, by focusing on its historical transition and content analysis. As a result, the ideal image of the bride in her 30s, was not against the severe gaze of society, but rather friendly. Also, This ideal image also seems to be consistent with the existing gender order.

I analyze the changes of Kan Shimozawa working as the newspaper journalist and the magazine editor in Osaka Mainichi shinbun. This analysis uses the perspective of a publishing media communicator “writer” and “editor”. Hasegawa Shin played the role of “editor”. Shimozawa changed as “writer” during the Serialization Yatarogasa.

The Taisho Culturalism is known as a current of thought that aimed at self-exploration through reading. In contrast, this paper examines the theory of reading and Bildung of Abe Jiro, a representative person of Taisho Culturalism. As a result, this article shows that Abe didn't make reading and Bildung itself as his own goal. For Abe, “life” was a precondition for reading, and “love” was a precondition for Bildung.

I will verify a platform function of monthly magazine that carried articles and correspondences about student movements and will also analyze correspondence column written by the students in that magazine. Specifically I will verify causality and relevance between the articles and correspondences of that magazine by using the dialogical network.

Currently, some fifteen TV information magazines are published regularly in Japan. Originated in early 1960s, first following the model of US, Japanese TV information magazines have developed varied styles under growing competition. While, the elaboration in timetables of programs, or TV listings, is important, it is also crucial for TV information magazines what sort of additional contents would be provided.

Once ago, journalism was an activity carried out by professional journalists as an institutional practice in Japan. However, anyone can now send their message to an extremely large audience through SNS. If journalism is regarded as the foundations of democracy and positioned as an institutional practice, the current technological innovation is causing a situation in which the ethics of media contents producers called journalism must be fundamentally reviewed.

The global epidemic of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) had a serious impact on the publishing industry. As a result, e-books and digital libraries have attracted attention, and digitization has become a driving factor. First, I would like to introduce the current situation in the Japanese publishing industry. Next, I will consider “Responses of publishers affected by COVID-19”, “Progress of e-books and digital libraries”, and “New content platforms”. Finally, I will introduce “Issues of publishers in the reading barrier-free law” and examine the issues of book publishers who are behind in digitization.

The main focus of this paper is to discuss the transformation of reading act led by digitalization from historical and semantic perspectives. Following the current publishing industry in Japan under the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyze the onset of eBooks as “The Program of America,” mainly from historical viewpoint. And based on Charles Sanders Peirce' s semiotics theory, we claim that there would be cognitive and semantic difference between the reading acts whether we read books on paper or on digital. Through these analysis, as we face the transformation of reading environment, we confirm the transformation of “others” for us as well.

The copyright law was amended in 2020 as a measure against piracy. The content is to infringe the leech site and to regulate the download of illegal content. The treatise will explain the content of the revision of the Copyright Law and the future direction.