Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper deconstructs Japanese media discourses of Japan’s territorial disputes in selected newspapers in English – namely The Asahi Shimbun, The Japan News and The Japan Times from 2002 to 2018. Embedded in critical geopolitics, content and discourse analyses were conducted with the lexicostatistical tool AntConc, using articles available in the LexisNexis and Kikozu II Visual databases. The outcomes illustrate that nationalist geopolitical imaginations are popular among all researched newspapers as demonstrated by a strong dominance of solely Japanese toponyms in the discourses as well as a focus on supporting Japan’s obstinate approach rather than promoting solutions.
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