Media and politics in Japan / edited by Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Krauss

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Media and politics in Japan : historical and contemporary perspectives / Susan J. Pharr -- Media as trickster in Japan : A comparative perspective / Susan J. Pharr -- Mass media as business organizations : a U.S.-Japancomparison / D. Eleanor Westney -- Portraying the state : NHK television news and politics / Ellis S. Krauss -- Japan's press and the politics of scandal / Maggie Farley -- Television and political turmoil : Japan's summer of 1993 / Kristin Kyoko Altman -- Media and policy change in Japan / John Creighton Campbell -- Media and political protest : the bullet train movements / David Earl Groth -- Media coverage of U.S.-Japan relations / Ellis S. Krauss -- Media exposure and the quality of political participation in Japan / Scott C. Flanagan -- Media in electoral campaigning in Japan and the United States / Hiroshi Akuto -- Media agenda setting in a local election : the Japanese case / Toshio Takeshita and Ikuo Takeuchi -- The mass media and Japanese politics : effects and consequences / Ellis S. Krauss.