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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: press freedom in contemporary Japan; Part I The politics of press freedom; 1 Media muzzling under the Abe administration; 2 The right-wing media and the rise of illiberal politics in Japan; 3 A pooch after all? The Asahi Shimbun's foiled foray into watchdog journalism; 4 The Hatoyama administration and the outing of the establishment media; 5 NHK: the changing and unchanged politics of semi-independence; 6 Abe and press oppression: guilty, not guilty or not proven? |
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Part II Legal landscape7 Chilling effects on news reporting in Japan's "anonymous society"; 8 Japan's designated secrets law; 9 State secrets and freedom of the press in Japan; Part III History and culture wars; 10 Press freedom under fire: "comfort women," the Asahi affair and Uemura Takashi; 11 Letter campaigns, the Japanese media, and the effort to censor history; 12 Remanufacturing consent: history, nationalism and popular culture in Japan; 13 NHK, war-related television, and the politics of fairness; 14 Pointing the bone: a personal account of media repression in Japan |
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15 Tabloid nationalism and racialism in JapanPart IV Marginalization; 16 Media marginalization and vilification of minorities in Japan; 17 Media side-lines the sit-in protest in Takae, Okinawa; 18 A historical perspective on press freedom in Okinawa; Part V PR, public diplomacy and manipulating opinion; 19 Spin over substance? The PR strategies of Vladimir Putin and Abe Shinzo; 20 Japan's global information war: propaganda, free speech and opinion control since 3/11; 21 The Japan Lobby, press freedom and public diplomacy; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317234357 |
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1317234359 |
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