About

Tomomi Maruyama is a Lecturer at the Department of Socio-Information Studies in the Faculty of Informatics at Shizuoka University. She completed her Ph.D. at Hosei University. Her dissertation explores early television documentary history in Japan from Tokyo/Osaka, male/female, and elite/assistant perspectives. She is currently working on Feminist Production Studies in Japan, using feminist ethnography to conduct interviews with female producers active from 1945 to the 1960s.

Television Documentary Production Culture

This study examines the development of the “Kamigata” Broadcasting Culture through prewar and postwar from the viewpoint of Production Studies, using various materials about the Osaka Broadcasting Station of NHK and interviews from different producers. This study presents three results: 1) it depicts the “Locality” of television production from Tokyo/Osaka; 2) it indicates the “Gender” of television documentary production from masculine/feminine; 3) it shows the “Fault” between television producers from elites/assistants.

Radio Pagoda Research as Media Infrastructure Studies

This study examines Japan’s wartime broadcasting policies through the media artifacts of “Radio Pagodas” in both Japan and Taiwan. Radio Pagodas were concrete structures shaped like stone lanterns with built-in receivers and loudspeakers placed in front of listeners on the street. They were also used to support occupational policies in East Asia during the Japanese invasion. The Radio Pagodas provides a clue to Japan’s wartime and after-wartime broadcasting policies. However, few people today know their history. The Radio Pagodas Research clarifies history, which is crucial in understanding how the fascist media policy and propaganda infrastructure unintentionally helped the postwar transition to street TVs, which became the symbol of a democratic Japan.

Images of Disabilities and Practices for Social Inclusion in Television Archives

This study aims to present how the understanding of social inclusion and its realization has developed historically and socially by examining the evolution of TV’s representations of disabilities. To achieve how our perceptions of disabilities have changed about their images depicted on TV, this study reviews documentary programs and analyzes footage using archival facilities such as NHK’s “TV Program Library” and the “Broadcasting Library” of the Broadcasting Program Center.