Biography
Dr Reiko Tsuchiya is a Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, Japan. She has researched the history of media, focusing primarily on the period from Japan’s Meiji era to the post-war period, with a particular interest in newspapers and printed ephemera. She has published several books including Media and Intelligence in Occupied Japan (2024 Japanese), Chronology of Japanese Media History (2018, Edited in Japanese), The Pacific War Read from Propaganda Leaflets against the Japanese (2010, Japanese), and The Origin of Popular Newspapers in Japan (2002 Japanese).
Professor Tsuchiya is also a co-editor of an English book, Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia: New Perspectives, 1894-1953 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia, 2023) and contributed an English paper titled “Japanese Mass Media” for the New Cambridge History of Japan, Volume Ⅲ: The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (2023). She has served as Director of the 20th Century Media Research Institute since 2010, organising monthly research seminars and overseeing the editing of the institute’s annual research journal, Intelligence.
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