A nation of a hundred million idiots"? a social history of Japanese television, 1953-1973

In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn

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Main Author: Chun, Jayson Makoto (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2007
Series:East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
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