![]() | Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan''s Mass Media 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. Laurie Anne Freeman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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