Sino-Japanese Animosity: historic roots and its coverage in Mass Media

<p><font size="3"><span style="line-height:32px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">China and Japan have a strong influence on each other. Relations between the two countries have always been complicated and represent a tangle of complex issues in international relations.&nbsp;</span></font><span style="line-height: 32px; font-size: medium; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This study seeks to shed new light on the media&#39;s relations with state and societal actors through highlighting the causal power of norms and ideas. There has been a significant body of scholarly work accumulated on the media and their relations to both state and society.</span></p><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height:32px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">This case study of Sino-Japanese relations and the coverage of China in the Japanese news media shows that negative coverage of the unstable state of Sino-Japanese relations is a standard feature of the Japanese press.&nbsp;</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height:32px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);">The Individual achievements and difficulties in Sino-Japanese relations have been analyzed in their main areas: political, economic, scientific, cultural, military.<br />This study has focused on how national-related debates have influenced the tones and angles that Japan&#39;s top two national dailies have taken in covering China and Japan-China relations.&nbsp;<br />Media representations contribute to an increasingly multi-dimensional perspective among the Japanese public in discussing Japan&#39;s place in the world.&nbsp;<br />This study represents a challenge to the mainstream literature on the tendency of assigning an exclusive role to capture the essence of state-media relations.&nbsp;</span></font></div>