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.

去年，我集中分析了《冲绳时报》、《朝日新闻》和《读卖新闻》上有关美国基地引发的问题的新闻报道。 我与我的研究助理一起改进了新闻话语编码系统，并在将故事分配给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有关 PFOS 和 PFOA 化学品的报告进行了深入的话语分析，这些化学品主要用作美国基地的阻燃剂。冲绳饮用水中检测出了高含量的这些化学物质。 虽然这一直是冲绳的头版新闻，但全国媒体的关注有限。我还发现国家新闻中这个故事的框架与冲绳当地新闻中呈现此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导致海洋生物退化的故事进行编码和分类。 对这些新闻报道的分析还使我能​​够编制一份关于这些问题的各方人士的名单，我已开始联系他们以获取更多背景信息并安排正式采访。