Broadcasting Politics in Japan
Ellis S. Krauss
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Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
The aftermath of Japan's 1945 military defeat left its public institutions in a state of deep crisis; virtually every major source of state legitimacy was seriously damaged or wholly remade by the postwar occupation. Between 1960 and 1990, however, these institutions renewed their strength, taking on legitimacy that erased virtually all traces of their postwar instability.How did this transformation come about? This is the question Ellis S. Krauss ponders in Broadcasting Politics in Japan; his answer focuses on the role played by the Japanese mass media and in particular by Japan's national broadcaster, NHK. Since the 1960s, television has been ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801437489
SKU
V9780801437489
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About Ellis S. Krauss
Ellis S. Krauss is Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the coeditor of Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific.
Reviews for Broadcasting Politics in Japan
In this analysis of Japan's public service broadcaster, NHK, Ellis Krauss provides a wonderfully nuanced and detailed example of the ways the mass media and the Japanese state intersect, creating in the process a media product frequently serving the state's interests.... Krauss has written an important work, one that contributes greatly to our understanding of the role that specific institutions, ... Read more