This commentary descrbes “Publishing in modern: Retrospect and prospects”. Chapter 1 examines “Meiji-Taishou periods” and Chapter 2 examines “Begnning of Shouwa”, Chapter 3, “Since occupational periods”. Through the last scene, I suspect that the Japan Society of Publising Studies and all publishing industries were reserching responsibility of war in the 1990s. And we never many pubulishing history sudies of advertising, history of manegement and economy in pubulishing yet.

We should be regulating of basic data, unify of international standard in pubulishing. In publishing history studies, we need a work of piling up history studies. In future, we should regulate of individual publishing history studies, study for criticize among the publishing history studies.