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Media Mix, Jan. 29, 2012
Seiko Noda Here is this week’s Media Mix, which is about two recent Fuji TV documentaries. The subject of one of them, Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Seiko Noda, has been discussed in this column...
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Media Mix, May 6, 2012
The cover of Atsuko’s book, “Aki: The Woman Who Lived With Kakuei Tanaka” Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about a supposedly “hidden child” that Ichiro Ozawa fathered two decades ago. As...
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The “placard” video
I heard about this video last week, when it had only received about 400 hits. Then Tokyo Shimbun ran an article about it and the number of views went up considerably. At the time of this writing the...
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Media Mix, Aug. 4, 2013
Yohei Miyake Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about the LDP’s lack of a popular mandate despite its overwhelming victory in the recent Upper House election. Regardless of the numbers—whether...
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Media Mix, Nov. 10, 2013
Joji Nishida Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about how media coverage of people considered outside the mainstream may contribute to their continuing social marginalization. The headline in the...
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Media Mix, Nov. 24, 2013
Here’s this week’s Media Mix about the bestseller “Genpatsu Whiteout,” whose pseudonymous author has been the object of much speculation since, as he admits in the Tokyo Shimbun interview cited, he is...
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Media watch: If public misspeaking were an Olympic event, the LDP would get...
Hiroshi Hase In terms of entertainment value, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which is gone but far from forgotten, continues to pay dividends. The latest source of delight is Ishikawa Prefectural Governor...
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Media watch: Kishida’s premiership sustained by inferiority complex
Yoshimasa Hayashi It’s commonly thought that Japan is run by its bureaucracy and that politicians don’t have much to do with shaping and moving policy. Though it’s an over-simplification this belief...
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