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紀要論文

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待兼山論叢. 日本学篇. 2026, 59, p. 1-26

日本語

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2026-03-25

This paper examines how the unspeakable experiences of the Battle of Okinawa begin to be articulated and documented through the gradual development of a relationship between interviewer and interviewee, and how the interviewer plays a role in eliciting memories of these frightful experiences. To analyze these issues, this paper focuses on the life history of Matsumora Michiko, a survivor of the Battle of Okinawa. Matsumora was born in 1932 in Hantagawa, Mawashi village, and experienced the Battle of Okinawa at age 13. In the early 1960s, she wrote six handwritten memoirs about the Battle of Okinawa, but she never showed them to her family or to any previous interviewers. Through this author’s interviews with her, however, it became clear that there were experiences of the Battle of Okinawa that she had not been able to write about. About a year after my initial interviews, Matsumora expressed a desire to share her wartime history, and a newspaper reporter named Hanashiro（apseudonym）joined the interview process. It is not easy for survivors of war and violence to narrate their experiences. Therefore, the presence of interviewers becomes essential to help organize the context of those experiences. In many qualitative research studies, the interviewer organizes and interprets the context of testimonies, aligning testimony with historical contexts and other relevant frameworks to construct the narrative. In this regard, Hanashiro also played this role of interpreting testimony, but she did so attending to elements surrounding the narration ― such as the sounds of bombs exploding, the smell of the gama（dugout）, and Matsumora’s emotional responses during the Battle of Okinawa. This approach not only clarified Matsumora’s experiences but also returned narrative authority to her. Although initially regarded with suspicion as an outsider, the interviewer gradually came to be seen as someone “needed” as their relationship developed.

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沖縄戦の聞き書きにみる対話空間の形成過程 : ライフヒストリーが語られる現場の検討

石川, 勇人

大阪大学大学院人文学研究科・文学部・大阪大学文学会

日本語

2026-03-25

待兼山論叢. 日本学篇

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26

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/104549