is a Japanese sociologist who is Emeritus professor of

Rikkyo University , also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private university, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan. Rikkyo is one of the five MARCH (Japanese universities), MARCH universities, the group of private universities in the Kantō region, Kanto region, toge ...

(St. Paul university) in

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. At present, a professor at

Kyoto Sangyo University is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. It is one university that belongs to "San-Kin-Ko-Ryu" (産近甲龍), a group of semi-major private universities in the Kansai area. History The university was established in 1965 by Toshima Araki (, ...

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

. In July 1965 he graduated from

Doshisha University , also referred to as , is a private university in Kyoto, Japan. Established in 1875, it is one of Japan's oldest private institutions of higher learning, and has approximately 30,000 students enrolled on four campuses in Kyoto. It is one of Japa ...

. His specialized field is

Mass Communication Mass communication is the process of imparting and exchanging information through mass media to large population segments. It utilizes various forms of media as technology has made the dissemination of information more efficient. Primary examples o ...

Journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

risk management Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks, followed by the minimization, monitoring, and control of the impact or probability of those risks occurring. Risks can come from various sources (i.e, Threat (sec ...

and

citizen journalism Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism, grassroots journalism, or street journalism, is based upon members of the community playing an active role in the pro ...

Publications

*The new media of contemporary (Gakubunsya) 1984. *The current journalism (Nihon hyoronsya) 1993. *The History of press control in Okinawa (Yuzankaku)1996. *The Broadcasting of digital era (Gakubunsya) 1997 *The turning point - Where is Japan going to (Mainichi shinbun) 2000 *The history of people's journalism in Japan - era of civil rights to Okinawa occupation (Kodansya gakujyutsu bunko) 2001. *The science of journalism (Yuhikaku) 2001. *The current war report (Iwanami shinsyo)2004. *Broadcasting system ethics and journalism in the age of digital-'97 Anglo-Japanese Broadcasting Forum- (1997)

External links

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References

Living people 1942 births Japanese sociologists People from Shizuoka Prefecture Academic staff of Rikkyo University Doshisha University alumni {{Asia-sociologist-stub