Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima

ISBN-13: 9781032101682 / Miękka / 2023 / 224 str.

Japan) Hidaka Kyoto Katsuyuki (Risumeikan University

Opis

Hidaka analyses the ways in which the Fukushima disaster has changed and divided opinions of nuclear power, and of national identity, in Japan. In Japan, nuclear power consistently had more than 70% support in opinion polls. The Fukushima disaster changed everything.

Recenzje

"Hidaka effectively historically contextualizes the Fukushima disaster and is the first to bring in perspectives from a variety of leaders who participate in shaping public opinion including scientists, mainstream media, politicians, and individual-level media such as documentarians."

Spis treści

Introduction: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Ten Years On 1. A Topology of the Mainstream Media: Newspapers and Television 2. Scepticism and Resistance: Scientists and Independent Journalists 3. The Struggle for ‘Japan’: The Intellectuals of the Humanities and Social Sciences 4. Documentary Films and Nuclear Power: Grassroots Movements, Democracy, and Opposition to the Mainstream Media Conclusions

O autorze

Katsuyuki Hidaka is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He is also a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, from which he received his Ph.D. degree. His publications include Japanese Media at the Beginning of the twenty-first century: Consuming the Past (Routledge 2017), a winner of the Japan Communication Association Best Book Award.