PART I -- Media and Politics in Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives -- Media as Trickster in Japan: A Comparative Perspective -- PART II -- Mass Media as Business Organizations: A U. S. Japanese Comparison -- Portraying the State: NHK Television News and Politics -- PART III -- Japan s Press and the Politics of Scandal -- Television and Political Turmoil: Japan's Summer of 1993 -- Media and Policy Change in Japan -- Media and Political Protest: The Bullet Train Movements -- Media Coverage of U.S. Japanese Relations -- PART IV -- Media Exposure and the Quality of Political Participation in Japan -- Media in Electoral Campaigning in Japan and the United States -- Media Agenda Setting in a Local Election: The Japanese Case -- PART V -- The Mass Media and Japanese Politics: Effects and Consequences.