Kulturen der Katastrophenberichterstattung – Eine Interviewstudie zur Fukushima-Krise in deutschen und japanischen Medien (Cultures of catastrophe-coverage – an interview study of the Fukushima crisis in the German and Japanese media)

Frank Rövekamp

doi:10.1080/18692729.2020.1787682

Rövekamp, Frank

2022-01-02 00:00:00

108 BOOK REVIEWS being tied to the central narrative. Had he made empire more central to his story, Kitaoka could have shown how Japan’s empire continually influenced the restructuring or solidification of Japanese domestic institutions. Another problem is that this book ends in 1989 instead of continuing into the post-Cold War era. America’s unipolar moment, the rise of China, provocations from a belligerent North Korea, and the problems of globalization all provide ample evidence that Japan’s domestic politics continue to be impacted by trends in the international environment. Insecurity in foreign affairs has led Japan, albeit slowly, to undermine its circumspect Cold War-era attitude toward security affairs. The past three decades have witnessed the dispatch abroad of the self-defense forces in peacekeeping operations, strengthened debates about revising Article 9 (the peace clause of the Japanese constitution), legislation allowing Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense, and even efforts to share defense technologies. All of these would have been unthinkable during the Cold War. Had Kitaoka written a final chapter addressing developments in the past thirty years, his book would have greater utility not only in classes on political history, but also in courses on Japanese politics taught by

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Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

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