本研究是李香兰，本名山口淑子的人物研究，重点关注她的战后历史。山口淑子1920 年出生于辽宁省沈阳近郊。抗日战争期间，她以中国女演员“李香兰”的身份生活，战后回到日本，以演员、记者和政治家的身份生活。直到她成为记者的时候，她才意识到“李香兰”在战争中所扮演的角色，其发现对她而言是非凡的痛苦。之后，她在克服其痛苦的同时作为政治家以及晚年参与亚洲妇女基金会的活动尽力工作。本研究试图观察她的战后足迹，尤其是她从记者时代以来的历史，分析她如何以坚定不移的信念面对“李香兰”并从事国际和平活动。李香兰研究已有丰富的积累和成果。至今，李香兰研究多关注于“满映影片中的李香兰的形象分析”，她的多重性和跨界性如何与日本帝国主义重叠，承担了“侵略”作用。然而，由于李香兰战争时期的影响巨大，除了这个时期对于她的研究很少受到关注。尤其是对于李香兰的战后人生，至今没有系统的分析，只有本人自传的阐述最详细。近年来，女性研究、情报战研究等新领域的研究试图以新史料探讨历史事实，批判性地重读她的自传，也开始关注到李香兰的战后足迹，这为李香兰研究带来了新发展。但是，至今还是本人自传阐述的战后人生最详细，几乎没有研究者特别关注到她的记者时代和政治家时代的研究状况并没有根本改变。因此，本研究关注山口淑子在记者时代以后的足迹，试图查找出她的战后人生如何受到李香兰这一角色的影响，重点讨论她本人自李香兰时代以来一直抱着的身份问题，即 “国家问题”和“性别问题”，思考这两大问题如何影响着她的战后历史，开拓李香兰问题的新视角，这就是本研究的出发点和意义所在。山口淑子在战后成为一名成功的记者和政治家，但面对李香兰这一角色的途径非常艰苦而并没有受到关注。虽然容易推测她在战后的活动与李香兰问题的联系，但却从未证明具体联系的过程。因此，本研究认真探讨战后山口淑子的活动与思想变化的过程，证明她在战后对国际和平的牢固的信念与李香兰这一角色的联系。研究方法主要采用文献调查。尽可能收集了关于山口淑子的一手资料，如：本人撰写的书籍、投稿以及采访，还收拾了日本国会会议记录等官方文献试图准确了解山口淑子在战后的思想与活动内容。
This study is a character study of Li Xianglan, whose real name is Yoshiko Yamaguchi, focusing on her postwar history.Yoshiko Yamaguchi was born in 1920 in the suburbs of Shenyang, Liaoning Province. During the Anti-Japanese War, she lived as a Chinese actress "Li Xianglan" and returned to Japan after the war to live as an actress, journalist and politician. It wasn't until she became a journalist that she realized the role of "Li Xianglan" in the war, and the discovery was an extraordinary pain for her. Afterwards, she worked her best as a politician and in the activities of the Asian Women's Fund in her later years while overcoming her pain. This study attempts to observe her post-war footprints, especially her history since the days of journalists, and analyze how she faced "Li Xianglan" and engaged in international peace activities with unshakable faith.Li Xianglan's research has been rich in accumulation and achievements. So far, Li Xianglan's research has mostly focused on "the image analysis of Li Xianglan in Man Ying films", how her multiplicity and cross-border overlap with Japanese imperialism, and assumed the role of "aggression". However, due to the great influence of Li Xianglan during the war, little attention has been paid to her research outside this period. Especially for Li Xianglan's post-war life, there is no systematic analysis so far, only the most detailed exposition of her autobiography. In recent years, studies in new fields such as women's studies and intelligence studies have attempted to explore historical facts with new historical materials, critically reread her autobiography, and have also begun to pay attention to Li Xianglan's post-war footprints, which has brought new developments to Li Xianglan's research. However, her post-war life is still the most detailed in her autobiography, and few researchers have paid special attention to the fact that her research in the days of journalists and politicians has not fundamentally changed.Therefore, this study focuses on the footprints of Yoshiko Yamaguchi after the era of journalists, trying to find out how her post-war life was influenced by the role of Li Xianglan, focusing on the issue of her own identity that is “State issues” and “Gender issues”, thinking about how these two major issues have affected her post-war history, and opening up a new perspective on the Li Xianglan issue, this is the starting point and significance of this research. Yoshiko Yamaguchi became a successful journalist and politician after the war, but the path to face the role of Li Xianglan was so difficult that it went unnoticed. Although it is easy to speculate on the connection between her post-war activities and the Li Xianglan issue, the process of the specific connection has never been proved. Therefore, this study carefully examines the course of Yoshiko Yamaguchi's activities and thought changes after the war, demonstrating the connection between her strong belief in international peace after the war and Li Xianglan's role.The research method mainly adopted the literature survey. As much as possible, I collected first-hand information about Yoshiko Yamaguchi, such as her own books, contributions and interviews, as well as official documents such as the minutes of the Japanese Diet, in an attempt to accurately understand Yoshiko Yamaguchi's thoughts and activities after the war.
