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Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan book cover

1st Edition

Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan

Edited By Jeff Kingston Copyright 2017
336 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In twenty-first century Japan there are numerous instances of media harassment, intimidation, censorship and self-censorship that undermine the freedom of the press and influence how the news is reported. Since Abe returned to power in 2012, the recrudescence of nationalism under his leadership has emboldened right-wing activists and organizations targeting liberal media outlets, journalists,... Read more

Introduction, Jeff Kingston

Part I: The Politics of Press Freedom

1. Media Muzzling under the Abe Administration, Aurelia George Mulgan

2. The Right-Wing Media and the Rise of Illiberal Politics in Japan, Koichi Nakano

3. A Pooch After All? The Asahi Shimbun’s Foiled Foray into Watchdog Journalism, Martin Fackler

4. The Hatoyama Administration and the Outing of the Establishment Media, Michael Penn

5. NHK: The Changing and Unchanged Politics of Semi-Independence, S. Ellis Krauss

6. Abe and Press Oppression: Guilty, Not Guilty or Not Proven? Michael Thomas Cucek

Part II: Legal Landscape

7. Chilling Effects on News Reporting in Japan’s "Anonymous Society", Lawrence Repeta and Sawa Yasuomi

8. Japan’s Designated Secrets Law, Arthur Stockwin

9. State Secrets and Freedom of the Press in Japan, Kenta Yamada

Part III: History and Culture wars

10. Press Freedom Under Fire: "Comfort Women", the Asahi Affair and Uemura Takashi, Yamaguchi Tomomi

11. Letter Campaigns, the Japanese Media, and the Effort to Censor History, Alexis Dudden

12. Remanufacturing Consent: History, Nationalism and Popular Culture in Japan, David McNeill　

13. NHK, War-related Television, and the Politics of Fairness, Philip Seaton

14. Pointing the Bone: A Personal Account of Media Repression in Japan, Gregory Clark

15. Tabloid nationalism and racialism in Japan, Mark Schreiber and William Wetherall

Part IV: Marginalization

16. Media Marginalization and Vilification of Minorities in Japan, Debito Arudou

17. Media Side-lines the sit-in protest in Takae, Okinawa, Akihiro Ogawa

18. A Historical Perspective on Press Freedom in Okinawa, Yoshimoto Hideko

Part V: PR, Public Diplomacy and Manipulating Opinion

19. Spin over Substance? The PR Strategies of Vladimir Putin and Abe Shinzo, Tina Burrett

20. Japan’s Global Information War: Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 3/11, Nancy Snow

21. The Japan Lobby, Press Freedom and Public Diplomacy, Jeff Kingston

Biography

Jeff Kingston is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan. He is the author of Japan's Quiet Transformation (2004) and Contemporary Japan (2011).

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