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050 00 $aP95.82.J3$bM43 1996
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245 00 $aMedia and politics in Japan /$cedited by Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Krauss.
260 $aHonolulu :$bUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axv, 389 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 20 $tIntroduction: Media and Politics in Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /$rSusan J. Pharr --$g1.$tMedia as Trickster in Japan: A Comparative Perspective /$rSusan J. Pharr --$g2.$tMass Media as Business Organizations: A U.S.-Japanese Comparison /$rD. Eleanor Westney --$g3.$tPortraying the State: NHK Television News and Politics /$rEllis S. Krauss --$g4.$tJapan's Press and the Politics of Scandal /$rMaggie Farley --$g5.$tTelevision and Political Turmoil: Japan's Summer of 1993 /$rKristin Kyoko Altman --$g6.$tMedia and Policy Change in Japan /$rJohn Creighton Campbell --$g7.$tMedia and Political Protest: The Bullet Train Movements /$rDavid Earl Groth --$g8.$tMedia Coverage of U.S.-Japanese Relations /$rEllis S. Krauss --$g9.$tMedia Exposure and the Quality of Political Participation in Japan /$rScott C. Flanagan --$g10.$tMedia in Electoral Campaigning in Japan and the United States /$rHiroshi Akuto --
505 80 $g11.$tMedia Agenda Setting in a Local Election: The Japanese Case /$rToshio Takeshita and Ikuo Takeuchi --$g12.$tThe Mass Media and Japanese Politics: Effects and Consequences /$rEllis S. Krauss.
520 $aJapan 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. NHK, its public service broadcasting agency, is second only to the BBC in size. And it has a full range of commercial television stations, high-brow and low-brow magazines (from widely read intellectual journals to the ubiquitous manga, or adult comic books), and a large antimainstream media and mini-media.
520 8 $aJapanese elites, surveys show, 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? As Japan's critics often hold, are they mainly servants of the state? Or are they watchdogs on behalf of the public, as the media themselves claim and as suggested by their role in uncovering late eighties and early nineties political scandals and in triggering political change in the summer of 1993?
520 8 $aAnd what effects do the media have on the political beliefs and behavior of ordinary Japanese people?
520 8 $aThese questions, central for interpreting the media's role in any industrial society, are the focus of this collection of essays by leading political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and journalists.
520 8 $aJapan'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.
650 0 $aMass media$xPolitical aspects$zJapan.
651 0 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069556
700 1 $aPharr, Susan J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032283
700 1 $aKrauss, Ellis S.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80057030
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