TSUTSUI Kumiko    Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  Education Development and Learning Support Center    Position   Associate Professor
Research Period	2009～2011
Research Topic	Studies on North Korean Rhetoric of Indoctrination : Unveiling rhetorical methods of controlling the people
Research Type	Individual Research
Research Division	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
KAKENHI Grant No.	21652043
Responsibility	Representative Researcher
Representative Person	TSUTSUI Kumiko
Details	Textbooks in North Korea indoctrinate Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's indispensable, fatherly figures and model behaviors and ways of thinking as a North Korean through various rhetorical devices, such as repetition, persuasion, comparison, nonverbal description, and questions and answers. Negative descriptions of foreign countries also contribute to constructing ideas of how North Koreans are protected by the government and how happy they are. Such rhetorical styles are used to maintain the current regime and control the people's behaviors and senses of thought.