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

在过去的一年里，我集中分析了《冲绳时报》、《朝日新闻》和《读卖新闻》上出现的有关美军基地引发问题的新闻报道。与我的研究助理合作，我完善了我的新闻语篇编码系统，并在将故事分配到我确定的四个主要叙事框架之一方面取得了重大进展。到目前为止，我的工作仅限于与基地相关的环境问题。我和我的研究助理首先对三年多来关于全氟辛烷磺酸和全氟辛烷磺酸化学品的报告进行了深入的话语分析，这两种化学品在美国基地主要用作阻燃剂。在冲绳的饮用水中检测到高水平的这些化学物质。虽然这一直是冲绳的头版新闻，但在全国媒体上受到的关注有限。我还发现，这个故事在国家新闻中的框架与冲绳当地新闻中呈现这一信息的方式有很大不同。我还开始对因在边野古建立新的美国海军陆战队空军基地而造成的海洋生物退化的故事进行编码和分类。对这些新闻故事的分析也使我能够编制一份关于这些问题的所有方面的个人名单，我已经开始联系他们，以获得更多的背景信息，并安排正式采访。

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.