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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824162003321

Autore

Itò Masami <1919->

Titolo

Broadcasting in Japan / / Masami Ito, with a study group on the Japanese broadcasting system, Hiroshi Shiono, Toshio Kataoka and Seigo Nagatake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 1978, 2011

ISBN

1-136-92900-2

1-136-92901-0

1-283-03774-2

9786613037749

0-203-84568-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Japan ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

ShionoHiroshi

KataokaToshio <1928->

NagatakeSeigo

Disciplina

384.50952

384.540952

Soggetti

Broadcasting -- Japan -- History

Direct broadcast satellite television -- Japan -- History

Radio broadcasting -- Japan -- History

Television broadcasting -- Japan -- History

Journalism & Communications

Radio & TV Broadcasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT; TITLE02; COPYRIGHT02; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 ENVIRONMENT FOR BROADCASTING; CHAPTER 2 THE EVOLUTION OF BROADCASTING IN JAPAN; CHAPTER 3 PRESENT BROADCASTING STRUCTURE; CHAPTER 4 NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI, THE JAPAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NHK); CHAPTER 5 COMMERCIAL BROADCASTERS; CHAPTER 6 THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING; APPENDICES

Sommario/riassunto

Japan has developed what is arguably the most sophisticated and the



most democratic broadcasting system in the world. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1st September 1923, with its devastation and confusion drove home in its appalling way the importance of being able to broadcast immediate information to the public. The same year, the Ministry of Communications promptly established an administrative system to regulate broadcasting. In less than a decade over one million people were registered listeners. Under the post war Constitution of 1946 freedom of ""speech and all other forms o