Protest and the Press in Okinawa: Framing Anger at the U.S. Military

冲绳的抗议和媒体：表达对美军的愤怒

• 批准号: 20K02078
• 负责人: HOLLSTEIN Mark (2022)
• 金额: $ 2.75万
• 依托单位: Kansai Gaidai University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2020 至 2022
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-20K02078/
• 关键词: Okinawa; News Discourse; U.S. Military Bases; Citizen Protest; Discourse Analysis; Henoko; PFOS; PFOA; Newspapers; Protests; Military Bases; Frame Analysis

This past year, I have concentrated on analyzing news reports about American-base-caused problems that have appeared in the Okinawa Times, the Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun. Working with my research assistant, I refined my system for coding news discourse and have made significant progress in assigning stories to one of the four primary narrative frames I have identified. So far, I have confined my work to environmental issues related to the bases. My research assistant and I began by conducting an in-depth discourse analysis of more than three years of reports about PFOS and PFOA chemicals, which are used primarily as a fire-retardants on U.S. bases. High levels of these chemicals have been detected in Okinawan drinking water. While this has been a consistent front-page news in Okinawa, it has received limited attention in the national media. I have also found the framing of this story in the national news to be considerably different that how this information is presented to local Okinawan news. I have also made a start on coding and classifying stories on the degradation of sea life caused by the creation of the new U.S. Marine Air Base in Henoko. Analysis of these news stories has also allowed me to compile a list of individuals on all sides of these issues whom I have begun to contact for more background information and to arrange formal interviews.

在过去的一年中，我专注于分析有关美国基地引起的问题的新闻报道，这些问题出现在《冲绳时报》，《 asahi sahi Shimbun》和《 Yomiuri Shimbun》中。 与研究助理合作，我完善了我的编码新闻论述的系统，并在为我所确定的四个主要叙事框架之一分配故事方面取得了重大进展。到目前为止，我将工作仅限于与基地有关的环境问题。 我和我的研究助理首先对有关PFO和PFOA化学物质的三年报告进行了深入的演讲分析，这些报告主要用作美国基地上的消防药物。在冲绳饮用水中发现了这些化学物质的高水平。 尽管这是冲绳的一致头版新闻，但它在国家媒体上受到了有限的关注。我还发现，在《国家新闻》中，这个故事的框架与此信息的呈现给当地的冲绳新闻有很大不同。我还开始了关于由Henoko新的美国海洋空军基地造成的关于海洋生物降低的编码和分类的故事。 对这些新闻报道的分析也使我能够在这些问题的各个方面列出这些个人清单，这些问题我已经开始联系以获取更多背景信息并安排正式的访谈。