Kingston - Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan

Jeff Kingston

Part I
The politics of press freedom

Aurelia George Mulgan

Koichi Nakano

Martin Fackler

Michael Penn

Ellis S. Krauss

Michael Thomas Cucek

Part II
Legal landscape

Lawrence Repeta and Yasuomi Sawa

Arthur Stockwin

Kenta Yamada

Part III
History and culture wars

Tomomi Yamaguchi

Alexis Dudden

David McNeill

Philip Seaton

Gregory Clark

Mark Schreiber and William Wetherall

Part IV
Marginalization

Debito Arudou

Akihiro Ogawa

Hideko Yoshimoto

Part V
PR, public diplomacy and manipulating opinion

Tina Burrett

Nancy Snow

Jeff Kingston

Debito Arudou (Hawaii Pacific University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa) is an advocate for Non-Japanese residents in Japan and author of numerous academic journal articles and books, including Embedded Racism: Japans Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination, Japanese Only: The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan and Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan. His regular column has appeared in The Japan Times since 2002. www.debito.org.

Tina Burrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan. She holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from Cambridge University. Her publications include Television and Presidential Power in Putins Russia, Routledge, 2013; Russias Competing Nationalisms and Relations with Asia in Asian Nationalisms Reconsidered, Jeff Kingston (ed.), Routledge, 2015; Abe Road: Comparing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes Leadership of his First and Second Governments, Parliamentary Affairs, 2016; and Prime Ministerial Leadership in Britain and Japan, 2017 (forthcoming).

Gregory Clark, educated at Oxford, served as an Australian diplomat in China and the Soviet Union before resigning to protest Canberras Vietnam War policies. Since 1969 he has lived and worked in Japan first as a correspondent and then as an academic attached to three universities. The strong response to his 1978 book The Japanese Tribe (in Japanese) gave him an unusual access to Japanese society, details of which can be found at www.gregoryclark.net. He speaks/reads Chinese, Russian, Japanese and Spanish.

Michael Cucek is a political consultant, advising clients in diplomatic, business and financial communities on Japanese politics. His blog Shisaku: Marginalia on Japanese Politics and Society was for many years a primary source of analysis and comment on the Japan scene. He is currently teaching history and politics at Temple University Japan and Waseda University. From 1992 to 1994 he was a research associate in the New York news bureau of TV Asahi, working on the production of nightly news and special reports for the networks innovative flagship program News Station.

Alexis Dudden is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her work focuses on the political use of the past in the present. She is author of numerous essays, blogs and books including Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States. She is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship in Seoul researching Northeast Asias numerous maritime disputes.

Martin Fackler is Research Fellow at the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, a Tokyo-based think tank. He worked for two decades as a correspondent in Asia, including six years as Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times. In 2012, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Martin has written several books in Japanese, including