Media and Politics in Japan

Contributors

373 CONTRIBUTORS Hiroshi Akuto is professor of social psychology at Tòyò Eiwa Women’s University and professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, where he was professor of social psychology. He has written numerous books and articles on electoral campaigning in Japan and the United States, the role of the media, and other topics relating to society and culture. Kristin Kyoko Altman is a political reporter and anchor for News Station on TV Asahi. During the 1993–1994 academic year, she was an associate of the Program on U.S.–Japan Relations, Harvard University. John Creighton Campbell, professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is the author of Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics (1977) and How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society (1992). He is currently working on a book about the Japanese health care system. Maggie Farley is a correspondent for the Boston Globe based in Hong Kong. Formerly she worked for Fuji Television in Tokyo. She received her M.A. in East Asian regional studies at Harvard University in 1992. Scott C. Flanagan, director of Asian studies and professor of political science at Florida State University, Tallahassee, is the author or coauthor of numerous works, including Politics in Japan (1984) and The Japanese Voter (1991). David Earl Groth has taught at the University of Hawai‘i-Hilo, Leiden National University in the Netherlands, and the University of California Irvine and Santa Cruz campuses. He is the author of Biting the Bullet: The Politics of Grass-Roots Protest in Japan (forthcoming) and is currently writing a book on foreign workers in Japan. Ellis S. Krauss, professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of Japanese Radicals Revisited (1974) and co-editor of Political Opposition and Local Politics in Japan (1980), Conflict in Japan (1984), and Democracy in Japan (1989). He is currently completing a book on television news and politics in Japan. 374 Contributors Susan J. Pharr is Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics at Harvard University and director of the Program on U.S.–Japan Relations. She is the author of numerous works on Japanese politics and society, including Political Women in Japan (1981) and Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (1990). Toshio Takeshita, associate professor of communication studies at the University of Tsukuba, formerly was affiliated with the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Tokyo. He has conducted several studies on media and agenda setting in Japan. Ikuo Takeuchi is professor of sociology at Tòyò University and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, where formerly he was director of the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies. He is the author of numerous works on mass communication effects and public opinion. D. Eleanor Westney is associate professor of management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of many works on organizational behavior and business culture in Japan and the United States, including Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan (1987). ...