Circulation notice - Kairanban

A circular notice for the local community is attached to a board or cardboard and passed around to each household. In the summer of 1939 (Showa 14), Tokyo City, which had been promoting the establishment of neighborhood associations since the previous year, is recorded to have distributed 100,000 copies of the Tonarigumi circular notice. In September of the following year, the Ministry of the Interior issued an instruction to establish neighborhood associations with the aim of practicing the way of the nobility and passing on orders from above, and the notice spread nationwide to the tune of the national song "Tonarigumi" written by Ippei Okamoto, "Please pass it around, we will inform you, we will inform you." The notices included information on rationing, air raid training, national bonds, savings, taxes, etc. There was opposition in urban areas where neighborly relations were not favored, and they disappeared from the general public when neighborhood associations were abolished in 1947 (Showa 22), but they are still used in neighborhood associations, housing complexes, and other places. Article 142 of the Public Offices Election Law prohibits the use of notices for election campaigning, which is considered to be the distribution of documents.

[Moriwaki Itsuo]

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地域社会のお知らせ文書などを、板や厚紙につけて各家庭を回すもの。1939年（昭和14）夏、前年から隣組整備推進中の東京市が、隣組回覧板10万枚を配布したという記録があり、翌40年9月、臣道実践・上意下達を目的とした町内会整備の内務省訓令で、岡本一平作の国民歌謡『隣組』「回して頂戴(ちょうだい)回覧板　知らせられたり知らせたり」のメロディにのり全国に普及した。回覧内容は配給、防空訓練、国債、貯蓄、納税などであった。近隣交際を好まない都会では反発もあり、47年（昭和22）の隣組廃止とともに一般からは姿を消したが、町内会や団地その他でいまも用いられている。公職選挙法第142条には、選挙運動のための回覧板使用は文書頒布とみなすという禁止規定がある。

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