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This work for students of the incumbent Russian President V.V. Putin, broadcast by Japanese national newspapers "Yomiuri" and "Asahi." Based on the analysis of newspaper publications and publications in the period November 2015 - June 2016 revealed the main characteristics of the image formed taking into account the specifics of the selected publications. Within the framework of the survey conducted among Japanese students at Osaka University in Osaka Japan, the image of Russia and the Russian president drawn up at the present stage is in the minds of the Japanese public. Based on the results of the search, the image of Putin, the newspaper publication being formed, and the image of the Japanese audience that really exists in the mind are compared. The obtained results allow to estimate the availability of information on how this occurs, and also to see the real picture of the ideas existing around the figure of V.V. Putin in Japan. / Данная работа рассматривает образ действующего президента России В.В. Путина, транслируемый японскими общенациональными газетами «Ёмиури» и «Асахи». На базе анализа газетных публикаций указанных изданий в период ноябрь 2015 – июнь 2016 г. выявлены главные характеристики формируемого образа с учетом специфики выбранных изданий. В рамках анкетирования, проведенного в среде японских студентов Осакского университета г. Осака Япония, составлен образ России и российского президента, существующих на современном этапе в сознании японской общественности. На основе полученных результатов, проведено сравнение образа Путина, формируемого газетными изданиями, и образа реально существующего в сознании японской аудитории. Полученные результаты позволяют оценить степень влияния газет на формирование японского общественного мнения в отношении России и ее действующего главы, а также увидеть реальную картину представлений, существующую вокруг фигуры В.В. Путина в Японии.

The aim of this paper is to trace the role Japan's print media played in the course by which the nation came to be imagined in the late nineteenth century, and once conceived, altered and expanded in the early twentieth century. By the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War (1905) a shift from a multiplicity of ideological articulations vis à vis the nation to a hegemony of "official" nationalism, which incorporated imperialism, had occured. How Japanese newspapers became an effective and powerful ideological institution which served to facilitate the hegemony of "official" nationalism is here examined. As the manner in which a culture communicates is a dominant influence on the formation of a culture's social and intellectual preoccupations, the monopoly of print in Meiji Japan makes an analysis of it a crucial first step in understanding how Japanese nationalism developed. Meiji newspapers evolved through four distinct phases: "pro-establishment," "political," "early commercial," and "fully commercial." In each succeeding stage of development, news was more finely strained. Print media's commercial coming of age had significant consequences: "official" nationalism became hegemonic, non-"official" nationalisms were effectively marginalized, and print came to play an increasingly central role in the body politic. An examination of editorial coverage of the war indicates the 1903-1905 period was pivotal to this development. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate