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Week 4: Television: from soaps to wide-shows Japanese television has characteristics in common with much NZ and other international television broadcasting. NHK started television broadcasting in 1953 in black and white, and as commercial licenses were granted to other operators and increasing numbers of televisions were sold domestically, the audience increased dramatically. As a medium, television in Japan is idiosyncratic, and has a history of contentiousness: government involvement, censorship, nudity, violence and recently mass psycho-trauma. It also has a less serious side, as evinced by the large number of quiz shows, wide shows, cartoons, and soap operas. Seminar Question: How has television in Japan attempted to provide the foundations for an inclusive society? How have controversial social issues been dealt with? Use the examples from the readings to construct your answer. Reading: Andrew Painter 'Japanese Daytime Television, Popular Culture, and Ideology' in Treat (ed) Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture, Uni Hawaii Press, 1996. Stephen Miller 'The Reunion of History and Popular Culture: Japan “Comes Out” on TV', Journal of Popular Culture, vol 31.2 Fall 1997 Bruce Stronach 'Japanese Television' in Powers and Kato (eds) Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture, Greenwood, 1989. NHK History http://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/e
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