‘Information-Sharing’ is Not a Buzz-Word in Japan: Press Clubs Insulate an Insular Political Economy

Susan Carpenter

Chapter 3 in Japan’s Nuclear Crisis, 2012, pp 71-78 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Foreign journalists covering the nuclear crisis, while expressing admiration for how the Japanese people were coping with the aftermath of the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear crisis, were critical of the way that Japanese government agencies released information about the nuclear accident to reporters. They questioned why there had not been a coordinated effort among agencies to communicate directly with reporters and why the prime minister was not in full control of the flow of data. Although senior officials in government met with foreign reporters during March and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano gave interviews to eleven news organizations from the United States, Britain and China, the reporters wondered if the exercise was merely the government’s attempt to assuage fears of radioactivity in foods and other products.

Keywords: Senior Official; Club Member; News Agency; News Organization; Foreign Medium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230363717_4

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