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• catalog abstract "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. 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. Japanese 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? And what effects do the media have on the political beliefs and behavior of ordinary Japanese people? These 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. 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.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b9125247.
• catalog contributor b9125248.
• catalog coverage "Japan Politics and government 1945-".
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "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. 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. Japanese 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? And what effects do the media have on the political beliefs and behavior of ordinary Japanese people? These 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. 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.".
• catalog description "Media and politics in Japan : historical and contemporary perspectives / Susan J. Pharr -- Media as trickster in Japan in comparative perspective / Susan J. Pharr -- Mass media as business organizations : a U.S.- Japan comparison / D. Eleanor Westney -- Portraying the state in Japan : NHK television news and politics / Ellis S. Krauss -- Japan's press and the politics of scandal / Maggie Farley -- TV and political turmoil : Japan's summer of 1993 / Kristin Kyoko Altman -- The media and policy change in Japan / John Creighton Campbell -- Media and political protest : the bullet train movements / David Earl Groth -- Media coverage of U.S.-Japan relations / Ellis S. Krauss -- Media exposure and the quality of political participation in Japan / Scott C. Flanagan -- The media in electoral campaigning in Japan and the United States / Hiroshi Akuto -- Media agenda-setting in a local election : the Japanese case / Toshio Takeshita and Ikuo Takeuchi -- The mass media and Japanese politics / Ellis S. Krauss.".
• catalog extent "xv, 389 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Media and politics in Japan.".
• catalog identifier "0824816986 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0824817613 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Media and politics in Japan.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press,".
• catalog relation "Media and politics in Japan.".
• catalog spatial "Japan Politics and government 1945-".
• catalog spatial "Japan.".
• catalog subject "302.23/0952 20".
• catalog subject "Mass media Political aspects Japan.".
• catalog subject "P95.82.J3 M43 1996".
• catalog tableOfContents "Media and politics in Japan : historical and contemporary perspectives / Susan J. Pharr -- Media as trickster in Japan in comparative perspective / Susan J. Pharr -- Mass media as business organizations : a U.S.- Japan comparison / D. Eleanor Westney -- Portraying the state in Japan : NHK television news and politics / Ellis S. Krauss -- Japan's press and the politics of scandal / Maggie Farley -- TV and political turmoil : Japan's summer of 1993 / Kristin Kyoko Altman -- The media and policy change in Japan / John Creighton Campbell -- Media and political protest : the bullet train movements / David Earl Groth -- Media coverage of U.S.-Japan relations / Ellis S. Krauss -- Media exposure and the quality of political participation in Japan / Scott C. Flanagan -- The media in electoral campaigning in Japan and the United States / Hiroshi Akuto -- Media agenda-setting in a local election : the Japanese case / Toshio Takeshita and Ikuo Takeuchi -- The mass media and Japanese politics / Ellis S. Krauss.".
• catalog title "Media and politics in Japan / edited by Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Krauss.".
• catalog type "text".