Public Relations in Japan: Evolution in a Culture of Lifetime Employment

ISBN-13: 9780367665371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Tomoki Kunieda; Koichi Yamamura; Junichiro Miyabe

Opis

Public Relations in Japan is the first in-depth scholarly discussion of what political, social and economic conditions affected the development of PR in Japan.

Spis treści

Introduction: Culture of lifetime employment and the history of Japanese PR   Chapter 1: History in Brief    Chapter 2: The Democratization of Japan and the Introduction of American PR    Chapter 3: Public Relations by a Local Government: 150 years of Tokyo’s PR     Chapter 4: History of Internal Communications in Japanese Companies     Chapter 5: (Under-) Development of PR Industry and Profession   Chapter 6: A Tale of Two Professionalisms: Human resource management (HRM) and PR function of Japanese companies   Chapter 7: Impacts of Crises on Public Relations 2007–2017: The "Lehman Shock" and the Great East Japan Earthquake    Chapter 8: Current situation of corporate public relations in Japan: An attempt to assess comprehensive public relations activities from eight aspects    Concluding Remarks: How general are we?    Appendix 1: Glossary of Key Terms    Appendix 2: Chronology of PR in Japan 1861-2017    Appendix 3: Note on Japanese Employment Practices

O autorze

Tomoki Kunieda, is an Assistant Professor at Taisho University, Japan. His research focus is on the history of mass communication, journalism and government public relations. He is a member of the JSCCS board of directors and chairperson of the Society’s Global Public Relations Theory Research Group. He has a doctorate in journalism from Sophia University.

Koichi Yamamura, PhD, is a visiting senior researcher at Waseda University, Japan. He is also a management and communication consultant with extensive experience in corporate communication, crisis management, corporate control, and technology communication. He has published case studies on hostile takeover defence and post crisis CSR activities. He has also co-authored an article and a book chapter on the historic evolution of PR in Japan.

Junichiro Miyabe is a Research Scholar at Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Japan. He has over 30-years of research experience at Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. He joined Hokkaido University in 2000 as a visiting professor and became a professor of international public relations in 2009 until 2015. He has published papers, among others, on human resource management and organizational structure of PR department.