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Closing the Shop

Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media

By: Laurie Anne Freeman

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Closing the Shop

Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media

By: Laurie Anne Freeman

How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press? Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan? Who benefits from the press club system? And who loses? Here Laurie Anne Freeman examines the subtle, highly interconnected relationship between journalists and news sources in Japan. Beginning with a historical overview of the relationship between the press, politics, and the public, she describes how Japanese press clubs act as "information cartels," limiting competition among news organizations and rigidly structuring relations through strict rules and sanctions. She also shows how the web of interrelations extends into, and is reinforced by, media industry associations and business groups (keiretsu). Political news and information are conveyed to the public in Japan, but because of institutional constraints, they are conveyed in a highly delimited fashion that narrows the range of societal inquiry into the political process. Closing the Shop shows us how the press system in Japan serves as neither a watchdog nor a lapdog. Nor does the state directly control the press in ways Westerners might think of as censorship. The level of interconnectedness, through both official and unofficial channels, helps set the agenda and terms of political debate in Japan's mass media to an extent that is unimaginable to many in the United States and other advanced industrial democracies. This fascinating look at Japan's information cartels provides a critical but often overlooked explanation for the overall power and autonomy enjoyed by the Japanese state.

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Princeton University Press

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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

By: Laurie DiMauro

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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

By: Laurie DiMauro

Presents literary criticism on the works of twentieth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, interviews, radio and television transcripts, pamphlets, and scholarly papers.

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Twentieth-Century Literary Cri

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0810379740

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Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults

A Selection of Sketches from Something about the Author

By: Laurie Collier,Joyce Nakamura

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A Selection of Sketches from Something about the Author

By: Laurie Collier,Joyce Nakamura

Contains updated and revised sketches on nearly 800 of the most widely read authors and illustrators appearing in Gale's Something about the author series.

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081037384X

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9780810373846

Biography Today

Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers. Author Series, Volume 3

By: Laurie Lanzen Harris

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Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers. Author Series, Volume 3

By: Laurie Lanzen Harris

Biographical profiles written especially for young readers ages 9 and above.

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Omnigraphics

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0780801660

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Laurie Blum's Free Money for Childhood Behavioral and Genetic Disorders

By: Laurie Blum

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Laurie Blum's Free Money for Childhood Behavioral and Genetic Disorders

By: Laurie Blum

Many of the diseases and chronic conditions specific to childhood require continual, long-term, often expensive care. Now Blum identifies hundreds of sources for money for such childhood-related conditions as Down's syndrome, autism, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, sleep and eating disorders, and learning disabilities.

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Touchstone

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0671745964

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Closing the Shop

Closing the Shop

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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults

Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults

Biography Today

Biography Today

Laurie Blum's Free Money for Childhood Behavioral and Genetic Disorders

Laurie Blum's Free Money for Childhood Behavioral and Genetic Disorders

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