LEADER 03837nam 2200517 450 001 9910818744903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-3180-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501731808 035 $a(CKB)4100000006673208 035 $a(OCoLC)1132690503 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse71313 035 $a(DE-B1597)515098 035 $a(OCoLC)1100429937 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501731808 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5774228 035 $a(OCoLC)1052870026 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5774228 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006673208 100 $a20190524d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBroadcasting politics in Japan $eNHK and television news /$fEllis S. Krauss 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aErrata sheet inserted. 311 $a0-8014-3748-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface and Acknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. NHK and Broadcasting Politics -- $tPart I. The Broadcasting of Politics -- $t2. Portraying the State -- $t3. The 7 P.M. News -- $tPart II. The Politics of Broadcasting -- $t4. Organization and Its Environment -- $t5. Leadership and Politics -- $t6. Occupational Roles and Politics -- $t7. New Media Strategies and Organizational Change -- $t8. "Casters, " Commercial Competition, and Change -- $t9. 273 The Politics of Broadcasting and the Broadcasting of Politics -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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 a fixture of the Japanese household, and NHK's TV news has until very recently been the dominant, and most trusted, source of political information for the Japanese citizen. NHK's news style is distinctive among the broadcasting systems of industrialized countries; it emphasizes facts over interpretation and gives unusual priority to coverage of the national bureaucracy. Krauss argues that this approach is not simply a reflection of Japanese culture, but a result of the organization and processes of NHK and their relationship with the state. These factors had profound consequences for the state's postwar re-legitimization, while the commercial networks' recent challenge to NHK has helped engender the wave of cynicism currently faced by the state. Krauss guides the reader through the complex interactions among politics, media organizations, and Japanese journalism to demonstrate how NHK television news became a shaper of Japan's political world, rather than simply a lens through which to view it. 606 $aTelevision broadcasting of news$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aGovernment and the press$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting of news$xHistory. 615 0$aGovernment and the press$xHistory 676 $a070.1/95 700 $aKrauss$b Ellis S.$0738415 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818744903321 996 $aBroadcasting politics in Japan$93962685 997 $aUNINA