Koichiro Shigaki

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at Hokkaido University

The Bulletin of Faculty of Sociology,Toyo University, Issue 60, no 2, pp.63-80

Events in history are customarily divided into periods to help create a context for individual events. Although history is linear and continuous, we primarily tend to analyze notable moments. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that there are small or unacknowledged developments of social change which have advanced the progress in...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the emergence of non-profit public (educational) broadcasting and the development of American media industries today from a different perspective than one centered on the commercial side of broadcasting. This study analyzes U.S. media history, especially the broadcasting history from the 1920s to the 1940s...

This work was supported by the [Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University] under Grant [research support grants of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2015]. This study sheds light on Frieda Hennock’s broadcasting policy while examining her visions of television in the 1950’s. Hennock was the first woman...

There is a common consensus within feminist studies that women’s movement and its history can be divided to three phases of modern feminism. Although the history is linear, we tend to analyze social movement including a feminist movement based on the common consensus. Within the frame work of feminism studies, a majority of studies tends to focus o...

This paper sheds light on Lar “America First” Daly’s fairness concept that led to the Lar Daly decision and the congressional discussion on the provision of Equal Time Rules after the Lar Daly decision in 1959 while re-examining the history of the fairness doctrine and its implications for the debates of fairness on political broadcast in Japan tod...

This study assesses the past studies and discourses on the historical justification of the dropping the bomb on Hiroshima as well as Nagasaki in the past to raise awareness of the consistent problems in addressesdiscusses current discourses on nuclear power related issues. There are always two sides to the use of the nuclear power, for or against....

This study sheds light on Frieda Hennock's broadcasting policy while reexamining her visions for a future of television broadcasting in 1950's. Hennock was the first woman appointed in 1948 to the Federal Communications Commission. She undertook an important role in the development of U.S. broadcasting industries and set the groundwork for American...

This edited book is about the assessment of Japanese Community Radios, and shows the case studies of different community radios existing in Japan. The topic is range from regulatory history to the current problems related to the management of community radio in japan. It's written by different authors from different fields within Media studies, and...

The purpose of this study is to re-evaluate the role of Frieda Hennock, first woman appointed in 1948 to the Federal Communications Commission. Particularly, this paper focuses on the motivation behind her promotion of educational broadcasting by analyzing her notes, letters, papers, and mimeographed speeches during her term in FCC. The origin of p...

This edited book is about news media representations of Tohoku big Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11th, 2011, and its analysis from the perspective of those who happened to be on site of the disaster at the tome. This is a part of a research project conducted by a group of graduate students at Tohoku University for 5 years under the instruction of...

The purpose of this paper is to re-evaluate the role of non-profit broadcasting in American media history. Particularly, this paper focuses on the development of educational broadcasting within the United States. This paper also attempts to assess a vague but important concept of “public broadcasting” within the U.S. media history. The educational...

The purpose of this paper is to re-evaluate the history of American public broadcasting and its implications for the role of media in a society of diverse cultures today. Particularly this paper focuses on an important female political figure and two organizations that contributed to build the foundation for American public broadcasting. The educat...

This paper illustrates the conception of educational broadcasting in the U.S. and its implication for the Internet age today. Around 1910 to 1920, the term “educational broadcasting” was coined by a land-grant university experimenting with wireless-communication in the U.S. Educational broadcasting further shaped the public broadcasting system in t...

Student paper... I will add detailed abstract later