Publications

Publication details [#44992]

Saft, Scott. 2006. The media and the pursuit of militarism in Japan: Newspaper editorials in the aftermath of 9/11. Critical Discourse Studies 3 (1) : 81–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | editorial | news reporting | participation framework

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study demonstrates that in the aftermath of 9/11, the editorials of four leading Japanese newspapers used a series of linguistic devices to incite Japan to participate in the US-led military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.