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Scholars of international relations and international communications view the extent of media freedom from country to country as a key comparative indicator either by itself or in correlation with other indices of national political and economic development. This indicator serves as a bellwether for gauging the health and spread of democracy.
Historical Guide to World Media Freedom is a new reference from CQ Press that brings together comprehensive historical data on media freedom since World War II. It provides consistent and comparable measures of media freedom in all independent countries for the years 1948 to the present. The work also includes country-by country summaries, analyses of historical and regional trends in media freedom, and extensive reliability analyses of media freedom measures.
The key information provided is designed to help researchers connect these historical measures of media freedom to Freedom House's annual Freedom of the Press survey release, enabling them to extend their studies back before the 1980s when Freedom House began compiling global press freedom measures.
The reference covers three major areas
-introductory chapters discuss the theoretical premises behind the nature and importance of media freedom, operational definitions of media freedom, the challenges of compiling reliable measures, historical trends, and the challenges of coding for media freedom in a way that ensures consistency for comparison.
-the heart of the book includes alphabetical, country-by-country summaries of the ebb and flow of media freedom paired with national media freedom measures over time. This is essential reading for researchers to connect the dots in understanding global media freedom.
-concluding material provides a detailed discussion of the historical patterns in media freedom, consideration of how media freedom tracks with other cross-national indicators, and discussion of the reliability of the information available on media freedom.
Accessible to both students and scholars alike, this groundbreaking new reference will be essential to collections in political science, international studies, and journalism and communications.
Japan: 1952–2012
Japan: 1952–2012
Japan Year by Year | ||
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Year | Media | Government |
1952 | Free | Democracy |
1953 | Free | Democracy |
1954 | Free | Democracy |
1955 | Free | Democracy |
1956 | Free | Democracy |
1957 | Free | Democracy |
1958 | Free | Democracy |
1959 | Free | Democracy |
1960 | Free | Democracy |
1961 | Free | Democracy |
1962 | Free | Democracy |
1963 | Free | Democracy |
1964 | Free | Democracy |
1965 | Free | Democracy |
1966 | Free | Democracy |
1967 | Free | Democracy |
1968 | Free | Democracy |
1969 | Free | Democracy |
1970 | Free | Democracy |
1971 | Free | Democracy |
1972 | Free | Democracy |
1973 | Free | Democracy |
1974 | Free | Democracy |
1975 | Free | Democracy |
1976 | Free | Democracy |
1977 | Free | Democracy |
1978 | Free | Democracy |
1979 | Free | Democracy |
1980 | Free | Democracy |
1981 | Free | Democracy |
1982 | Free | Democracy |
1983 | Free | Democracy |
1984 | Free | Democracy |
1985 | Free | Democracy |
1986 | Free | Democracy |
1987 | Free | Democracy |
1988 | Free | Democracy |
1989 | Free | Democracy |
1990 | Free | Democracy |
1991 | Free | Democracy |
1992 | Free | Democracy |
1993 | Free | Democracy |
1994 | Free | Democracy |
1995 | Free | Democracy |
1996 | Free | Democracy |
1997 | Free | Democracy |
1998 | Free | Democracy |
1999 | Free | Democracy |
2000 | Free | Democracy |
2001 | Free | Democracy |
2002 | Free | Democracy |
2003 | Free | Democracy |
2004 | Free | Democracy |
2005 | Free | Democracy |
2006 | Free | Democracy |
2007 | Free | Democracy |
2008 | Free | Democracy |
2009 | Free | Democracy |
2010 | Free | Democracy |
2011 | Free | Democracy |
2012 | Free | Democracy |
Media Freedom History in a Nutshell
- A robust and economically vibrant free media system
- Minor issues regarding a cultural deference to authority and collusion between economic and political elites are often a point of discussion
- As of 2011, there were a total of 106 daily newspapers, 105 of them were paid-for daily newspapers, with an average circulation of 47,777,910 (World Association of Newspaper's 2012 World Newspaper Trends)
- Japan has four national commercial television networks as well as public television and a mix of commercial and public radio
- As of 2012, about 79 percent of Japanese had Internet access (International Telecommunication Union's 2012 ICT Indicators Database)
In Brief
American Occupational forces established a parliamentary democratic system, including free media. A robust and economically vibrant free media system ...
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