Let a Hundred Channels Contend: Technological Change, Political Opening, and Bureaucratic Priorities in Japanese Television Broadcasting

Noble, Gregory W.

doi:10.2307/133392

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“…7). The deregulation of cable and satellite TV and the rise of "info-tainment" talk shows in the 1990s drew some viewers away from NHK's famously pro-establishment and non-analytical news broadcasts (Noble 2000;Taniguchi 2007). Yet these shows' content and formats remain relatively congruent, and audience sizes for NHK news programs are still nearly double that of the next most watched TV news programs (Collet and Kato 2014, 43).…”

Section: T H E K O R E a N A N D J A P A N E S E M E D I A E N V I R mentioning

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The Access Paradox: Media Environment Diversity and Coverage of Activist Groups in Japan and Korea

Arrington¹

2017

J. East Asian Stud.

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To what extent is a diverse news media environment good for activists who seek attention for their cause? Scholars agree that activist groups depend on the media to reach policymakers and bystanders. Yet prior scholars have overlooked how factors that contribute to media environment diversity—including journalistic norms, market structures, outlets’ partisanship, and audiences’ news consumption habits—can have contradictory implications for activist groups. Disaggregating questions of gaining publicity from questions of the message and reach of coverage, this article shows that while pluralistic media environments are more accessible to activists, more homogeneous media environments help groups that manage to break into the mainstream news reach wider audiences with more coherent narratives. These findings challenge common assumptions about the news media in Japan and Korea. A paired comparison of hepatitis C-related activism in both countries demonstrates how the forces democratizing access to the media are paradoxically reducing the persuasive potential of publicity.

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Section: T H E K O R E a N A N D J A P A N E S E M E D I A E N V I R mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Access Paradox: Media Environment Diversity and Coverage of Activist Groups in Japan and Korea

Arrington¹

2017

J. East Asian Stud.

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“…The failure of the Japanese Economic Miracle in the nineties is sometimes called Japan's "lost decade" (Callen and Ostry 2003;Saxonhouse and Stern 2004); although with the global financial crisis beginning in 2008 undermining a long-awaited mild recovery of the Japanese economy, a lost two decades might be a more appropriate name. This prolonged economic stagnation caused significant social change in Japan, which is only just beginning to stabilize once more (Noble 2000;Pekkanen 2006).…”

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The Development of Japanese Data Protection

2010

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In 2003, Japan enacted its first private‐sector data protection legislation, complementing the concurrent update of the public‐sector regulations. The publicly stated goal of the Japanese government was to support trade with Europe by providing suitably strong protection to qualify for European data‐export approval. In this paper we examine the internal social and political pressures that led to the adoption of apparently strong private‐sector data protection, despite prior long resistance to such a move. The pressures we have identified include direct and indirect effects of Japanese economic difficulties since the early 1990s, media pressure to update public‐sector rules because of the introduction of Juki Net, and similar media pressure to apply similar rules to the private sector. We also examine the role that the technology of kanji input systems played on the lack of urgency in demands for private‐sector data protection until 2000.

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“…The relaxation of regulations also allowed foreign companies to participate in the cable industry. At the time, Japan took very pioneering steps allowing for significant foreign ownership (up to 49%) of cable MSOs, while crafting very favourable franchise licensing conditions (Noble 2000). This policy in favour of foreign ownership resulted in major changes in the shareholder composition of MSOs.…”

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The Regulation of Pay Television in East Asia: A Comparative Study

Kwak¹

2007

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This paper examines the way in which new media technologies have compelled policy-makers to adapt regulatory frameworks in order to accommodate technological change and to restructure television broadcasting in selected countries in East Asia, namely Hong Kong SAR, Japan and South Korea. It is primarily concerned with how the state and the players -old and new -in these countries have responded to emerging new media technologies (cable, satellite and Internet television). Based on a comparison of the regulatory history and the structural changes noted in the recent development of pay television in these countries, this paper argues that although the growing array of new technologies fragments and diversifies the industry, there is a significant variation in the degree to which the regulatory framework incorporates all types of pay television. It also argues that the de-regulatory frameworks in Japan and South Korea have been less effective than in Hong Kong SAR in incorporating all types of pay television.

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Let a Hundred Channels Contend: Technological Change, Political Opening, and Bureaucratic Priorities in Japanese Television Broadcasting

Cited by 9 publications

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The Access Paradox: Media Environment Diversity and Coverage of Activist Groups in Japan and Korea

The Access Paradox: Media Environment Diversity and Coverage of Activist Groups in Japan and Korea

The Development of Japanese Data Protection

The Regulation of Pay Television in East Asia: A Comparative Study

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