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Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan’s Mass Media. By Laurie Anne Freeman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 256p. $39.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2005

Patricia L. Maclachlan
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin,,

Abstract

Although Japan scholars have long been aware that media institutions facilitate state efforts to curtail the free flow of information within Japanese society, Closing the Shop is the first comprehensive treatment of this important topic. The book was well worth the wait.

Type
Book Review
Copyright
2001 by the American Political Science Association

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