Kaori Hayashi is Professor of media and journalism
studies at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies,
the University of Tokyo. She also serves as a member of the advisory
board ofSocial Science Japan Journal (published by U. of Tokyo
and Oxford Univ. Press) as well as of the board of Deutsches Institut
für Japanstudien (German Institute for Japanese Studies).¡@She is
also a member of the board of the Japan Society for Mass Communication
and Journalism Studies.
Her English publications include “The ‘Home and Family Section’
in Japanese Newspapers” (John Tulloch, Colin Sparks (eds.), Tabloid
Tales. 2000, Rowman and Littlefield), “‘The Public’
in Japan” (Theory Culture and Society. Problematizing Global
Knowledge: Special Issue. Vol. 23. No.2-3, March-May 2006), “The
Dilemmas of Reforming Japan's Broadcasting System: Ambivalent Implications
of its Liberalization” (David Ward (ed.) Television and Public
Policy: Change and Continuity in an Era of Global Liberalization.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2008). Website: http://www.hayashik.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
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