英文摘要 |
Relation between Taiwan and Japan discussing from geopolitics or cultural exchanges has increased its complexity with democratization in Taiwan and China influence in the 90s. This paper examines about Taiwan as appears on a Japanese press, and performed diachronic analysis on Taiwan news reports by measuring the amount and spatial structure of the 90s which appeared in Mainichi Daily News. This paper raises a hypothesis. According to the quantitative survey retrieved by search on a keyword Taiwan, the amount of reports increased from the second quarter of the 90s, and the second half observed a sharp increase. Meanwhile, main articles and the related one(s) came to be in the front page, hence not caged to the international page. Moreover, in the second half of the 90s, these reports appear even on the third page, which is ordinarily for domestic news. We can say about the reports on Taiwan in Mainichi that they began to have a concern about connection to domestic viewpoints, and subscribers' accessibility. |