Document Type
Peer Reviewed Article
Publication Date
12-1990
Abstract
A lengthy field study in Japan using interviews and other sources and focusing on the nation's five leading national newspapers and Tokyo's major television stations finds evidence of much overlap between industry and the news media, through interlocking directorships and social club memberships, for example. Also journalists and other industrial leaders tend to be educated at the same exclusive universities and journalists also belong to professional clubs in which common values are shared. There already is a concentration of ownership of Japanese mass media and, through the mean sketched in this study, one can find how the mass media are integrated with other power centers of Japanese society.
Recommended Citation
Akhavan-Majid, Roya, "The Press as an Elite Power Group in Japan" (1990). Mass Communication Faculty Publications. 3.
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Comments
NOTICE: this is the author’s final version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published as:
Akhavan-Majid, Roya, (1990) "The Press as an Elite Power Group in Japan" Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, December 1990, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp.1006-1014. DOI: 10.1177/107769909006700401