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The Problematic Situation of Freedom of Expression in Japan - Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law during the Iraq War. By Lawrence Repeta, Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2023. 238 pp. Hardcover: £120.00

The Problematic Situation of Freedom of Expression in Japan - Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law during the Iraq War. By Lawrence Repeta, Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2023. 238 pp. Hardcover: £120.00

Features of Suffering Perceived by Japanese Patients in a Stable Condition: A Text Analysis

Objectives: We performed a text analysis of telephone consultation content regarding features of suffering (thoughts that patients cannot express to nurses) perceived by Japanese patients in a stable condition. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted by 8 telephone counselors who listened to patients’ suffering. Interview content was recorded verbatim, text was organized, and a text and association analysis was conducted (cluster analysis, bubble plot analysis, and a co-occurrence network analysis). Results: Seventy-two conversations were obtained and analyzed. It was confirmed that suffering as perceived by stable, Japanese patients had consistent concerns such as “lack of inference,” “privacy issues,” and “nurses’ not intervening on patients’ behalf.” Additionally, expectations of patients when patients are suffering are extremely diverse and were not characterized by specific tendencies. Conclusions: Emotions have a complicated influence in the context of Japanese patients’ suffering. It is necessary to consider the cultural background of expression in Japan to treat patients’ suffering.

Our Common Understanding, for Earl Miner

Always with a sense of ‘we’; that’s how I remember Earl Miner. Now, with him gone for more than five years, that ‘we’ is shot through with genial images as well as a feeling of loss. But the ‘we’ that Miner opened up to me came initially much more with a sense of a common struggle toward understanding. That would be a platitude – ‘struggle toward understanding’ – and rather grandiose for what I intend, so perhaps I should put it in more elementary terms: it was in the dissection and decipherment of Japanese poetry, as part of a class of grad students and senior concentrators, that I first came to know him. We would sit in his office in the English Department for a three-hour seminar, working our way deliberately, not quickly, through a selection of classic Japanese poems. These were waka. The word means literally, ‘Japanese song’, but in most cases it refers to the short form (in lines of 5–7–5–7 and 7 syllables) that grew up around the seventh century, to become the preferred vehicle for poetic expression in Japan’s classic age and early medieval period. The more familiar, and even shorter haiku, is much indebted to the aesthetics of waka, but belongs to a later age and a different sort of society. Waka, for their part, were the poems of witty aristocrats and, eventually, of legendary samurai. They had great prestige in early Japan and continued, in the early days of Japanese Studies in the US, to be

The revolution of animation expression in Japan around 1960

The revolution of animation expression in Japan around 1960

Modernism in practice: an introduction to postwar Japanese poetry

Postwar modernist verse has been rarely discussed in English-language works on Japanese literature, despite the fact that it has been the dominant mode of poetic expression in Japan since World War II. Now readers of modern Japanese poetry in translation have gained an impressive intellectual and linguistic companion in their enjoyment of modern Japanese verse. Modernism in Practice combines close readings of individual Japanese postwar poets and poetry with historical and critical analysis. Five of the seven chapters concentrate on the life and work of such outstanding poets as Soh Sakon, Ishigaki Rin, Ito Hiromi, Asabuki Ryoji, and Tanikawa Shuntaro. Several of these writers have only come into prominence in recent decades, so this work also serves to acquaint readers with contemporary Japanese verse. A significant dimension of this volume is the detailed and extensive treatment afforded two important areas of postwar Japanese verse: the poetry of women and of Okinawa. In addition, the book looks at a number of early prewar poets, including Yosano Akiko and her husband, Tekkan, in an attempt to analyze the origins of modernist poetry in Japan. Modernism in Practice is noteworthy not only as an introduction to postwar Japanese poets and their times, but also for the numerous poems that appear in translation throughout the volume - many for the first time in book form. These elegant, evocative translations, together with a contextual study unmatched in depth and conviction, make this an exciting contribution to modern Japanese literature.

HIV/AIDS and Professional Freedom of Expression in Japan

A senior physician with a government role in Japan made a widely reported and misleading statement about Thailand's policy on HIV/AIDS patients. He claimed that in Thailand the policy is to spend public money on the prevention of HIV infection while allowing AIDS patients to die untreated. The author, a community nursing specialist in Japan with first-hand knowledge of HIV/AIDS policy in Thailand, thought that this statement would influence attitudes negatively in Japan. However, speaking out about this misrepresentation of the facts carried certain risks. Although freedom of expression is valued in Japan, in practice it is not easy to contradict senior medical professionals. The author uses his experience of this difficult professional situation to teach nurses how to approach speaking out in the public interest.

Emotional Expression in Japan and the United States

In this study, the impact of individualism-collectivism at the cultural and individual level on the expression of emotion in Japan and the United States was examined. Individualism-collectivism expectations at the cultural level were partially supported, and only weak effects of individualism-collectivism at the individual level were found. The data are consistent with socialization into individualistic and collectivistic values as well as the lessening of these influences in U.S. and Japanese society. They support the idea that individualism-collectivism is not a comprehensive and precise dimension but rather a loose collection of many different cultural characteristics.

Libel Law and the Press: U.S. and South Korea Compared

ARTICLES LIBEL LAW AND THE PRESS: U.S. AND SOUTH KOREA COMPARED Kyu Ho Youmt I. INTRODUCTION Freedom of the press is not absolute; it must be balanced against other competing social interests. As the U.S. Supreme Court stated: [A]bsolute protection for the communications media requires a total sacrifice of the competing value served by the law of defamation. ' Legal protection against injury of a per- son's reputation is an intersubjectively reasonable transcultural goal of the law. '2 The libel law of a society, however, indicates to a large extent how that society views the relative importance of reputational interest vis-A-vis freedom of the press. In the United States, press freedom is protected as a consti- tutional right, but reputation is not. 4 First Amendment scholar Frederick Schauer has written: The American approach . . . reflects a society in which the press is considered to occupy a much more important role in the resolution of public issues. The press occupies a special position in the American system, a posi- t Associate Professor, Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunica- tion, Arizona State University. Author's note: The South Korea sections of this article have been drawn from revision of the author's Libel Law and the Press in South Korea: An Update, OCCASIONAL PAPERSfREPRINTS SERIES IN CONTEMPO- RARY ASIAN STUDIES no. 110 (1992). 1. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 341 (1974); see also Curtis Pub- lishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130, 150 (1967). A STUDY IN 3. Frederick Schauer, Social Foundations of the Law of Defamation: A Com- parative Analysis, 1 J. MEDIA L. & PRAC. 1, 3 (1980). 4. One commentator noted: American constitutional law is distinguished by its protection of defamers, rather than the defamed. Oscar S. Gray, Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression in the United States as it Affects Defamation Law, 38 AM. J. CoMP. L. 463, 463 (1990). LAWRENCE W. BEER, FREEDOM OF EXPREssION IN JAPAN: CoMPARATIVE LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY

Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society. By Lawrence W. Beer. New York: Kodansha International, 1984. 414 pp. Index. $50.

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Freedom of Expression in Japan

Freedom of Expression in Japan

Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society

Journal Article Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society Get access Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society. By Beer Lawrence W.. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd., 1984. Pp. 415, Index. Shigenori Matsui Shigenori Matsui * Associate Professor of Law, Osaka University, Japan. I would like to thank Richard B. Parker, Visiting Professor of Law, Osaka University, for his helpful comment on my earlier draft Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 34, Issue 3, Summer 1986, Pages 583–587, https://doi.org/10.2307/840368 Published: 01 July 1986

Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society.

Freedom of Expression in Japan: A Study in Comparative Law, Politics, and Society.