Media and Politics in Japan: Media & Pol in Japan Paper - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824817613 ISBN 13: 9780824817619

Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996

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Japan is one of the most media-saturated societies in the world. The circulations of its "big five" national newspapers dwarf those of any major American newspaper. Its public service broadcasting agency, NHK, is second only to the BBC in size. And it has a full range of commercial television stations, high-brow and low-brow magazines, and a large anti-mainstream media and mini-media.

Japanese elites rate the mass media as the most influential group in Japanese society. But what role do they play in political life? Whose interests do the media serve? Are the media mainly servants of the state, or are they watchdogs on behalf of the public? And what effects do the media have on the political beliefs and behavior of ordinary Japanese people?

These questions are the focus of this collection of essays by leading political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and journalists. Japan's unique kisha (press) club system, its powerful media business organizations, the uses of the media by Japan's wily bureaucrats, and the role of the media in everything from political scandals to shaping public opinion, are among the many subjects of this insightful and provocative book.

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This is an authoritative and ground-breaking assessment of an important but little-studied facet of Japanese politics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0824817613
• ISBN 13: 9780824817619
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408
• Herausgeber: Pharr Susan J., Krauss Ellis S.
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar