La presse japonaise pendant la Première Guerre mondiale : reportages de guerre et débats sur le journalisme

Abstract

How was World War I represented in the Japanese press? How was it turned into a media event by journalists? As the journalism industry expanded rapidly and newspapers debated the “World War”, the Asahi Shimbun dispatched two correspondents, Sugimura ­Sojinkan (1872-1945) and Ōba Kakō (1872-1924), to cover the events unfolding in Europe. World War I was thus an opportunity for East Asia to picture the “world” in a global sense. This paper, which is based on war reports and debates on journalism, examines how the press provides readers with a fictional reality constructed from testimonies from the field.

Keywords

• Journalism
• War Report
• Testimony
• World War I
• Sugimura Sojinkan
• Ōba Kakō