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DESCRIPTION:Galapagos or Alcatraz? Understanding Japan’s Information Regime
  Laurie Freeman Associate Professor of Political Science University of Cal
 ifornia\, Santa Barbara Foreign correspondents\, freelance journalists and
  others have been trying to break down Japanese collusive media practices\
 , particularly the cartel-like “press [kisha] clubs” and other closed medi
 a entities for well over a half century -- with relatively little success.
  At the turn of the current century\, many people thought that these insti
 tutions would collapse with the arrival of alternative information sources
  such as the internet. Indeed\, similar institutions in Korea were transfo
 rmed as a result of the rise of a technically-savvy and information hungry
  civil society there. Although Japan experienced some opening of its close
 d system in the last decade\, it remains the only democratic nation to ban
  the use of the internet during the election campaign period. More importa
 ntly\, an analysis of the handling of key information in the aftermath of 
 the double disaster at Fukushima reveals that 
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SUMMARY:East Asia Program presents: Laurie Freeman
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Galapagos or Alcatraz? Understanding Japan’s I
 nformation Regime Laurie Freeman Associate Professor of Political Science 
 University of California\, Santa Barbara Foreign correspondents\, freelanc
 e journalists and others have been trying to break down Japanese collusive
  media practices\, particularly the cartel-like “press [kisha] clubs” and 
 other closed media entities for well over a half century -- with relativel
 y little success. At the turn of the current century\, many people thought
  that these institutions would collapse with the arrival of alternative in
 formation sources such as the internet. Indeed\, similar institutions in K
 orea were transformed as a result of the rise of a technically-savvy and i
 nformation hungry civil society there. Although Japan experienced some ope
 ning of its closed system in the last decade\, it remains the only democra
 tic nation to ban the use of the internet during the election campaign per
 iod. More importantly\, an analysis of the handling of key information in 
 the aftermath of the double disaster at Fukushima reveals that <br>
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