Table of Contents
Section One: Japanese Journalism: Past, Present and Future
Chapter 1. New Journalism in Interwar Japan: Cautionary Notes for Researching
Japanese Print Media
Chapter 2. Rebalancing Japanese Newspaper Coverage: National and Kansai Newspapers in
the Digital Age
Chapter 3. New Journalism in Japan: Using Independent Digital Sources for Social Research
Section Two: Japanese Journalism and Social Discourse
Chapter 4. The Ambiguity of Memory in East Asian Newspapers: Journalistic Representations
of War Memories
Chaper 5. Japanese Newspaper’s Influence on Societal Discourse and Governmental
Policy Toward North Korea, 1998-2006
Chapter 6. Reporting of the World’s Biggest Single Plane Crash
Chapter 7. Two Journalistic Political Communities: The Newspapers and Nico Nico D?ga
Section Three: Japanese Journalism and the Great East Japan Disaster
Chapter 8. The Media, the Government, and the Tripartite Disaster of 2011
Chapter 9. The Local Press in Japan and Discourses of National Sacrifice
Chapter 10. Local Newspapers and the Post-Earthquake and Tsunami Reconstruction in Iwate
Prefecture
Chapter 11. From News to Memory Creation: Regional Newspaper Coverage of the Great East
Japan Disaster, 2011
Conclusion
