Mass Communication in Japan offers a rare inside look at mass media in an information society intimately related to and infinitely different from our own. Anne

This book is the first to provide a summary of the state of knowledge about communication in Japan and the United States. Included is an overview of the major a

The Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobil

Despite its rapid economic development, Japan lacks a large public relations industry and its role is viewed very differently from its Western counterparts. PR

Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretica