This website was created as part of the joint research project, “Creation of a ‘Script Chronicle’ Website, and Educational Use and International Dissemination Thereof” (FY2017 Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)).

The website is run jointly by the Graduate School of Japanese Broadcast Script Database Institute of Hosei University and the Consortium for the Promotion of Broadcast Script Archives in Japan. The database is created jointly with the National Institute for Informatics (NII).

The purpose of this website is to 1) shed light on the history of broadcasting; 2) understand the economic conditions and familial relationships at the time; 3) visualize the transformation of language from a linguistic perspective; and 4) attempt to conduct comparative studies of video and script material, production activities, and performances in educational settings and consider ways to apply such activities in language and communication education; through collecting and providing information about scripts that are valuable cultural sources, publishing oral histories focusing on screenwriters, and organizing and categorizing scripts. Another aim is to make the website available in multiple languages to enable international users to access archives of Japanese broadcasting culture.

*Principal Investigator: Mafumi Fujita (Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University)

*Co-investigators: Minako Okamuro (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University), Naoki Kobayashi (Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University), Akihiko Takano (Professor, National Institute of Informatics), Ayako Nakamachi (Professor, Nihon University College of Art), Yoshiyuki Niwa (Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo Graduate School), Takehiko Maruyama (Associate Professor, School of Letters, Senshu University), Shunya Yoshimi (Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo Graduate School)