JAPANESE SPORTS JOURNALISM: GENRE PERSONALITY AND MODERN MEDIA PRODUCTION METHODS
UDC 070.446(520)
Key words: sports journalism in Japan, system of journalistic genres, priority sports, genre specificity of sports materials in print, audiovisual and online media, newspaper “Asahi Shimbun”.
For citation: H. Tanaka. Japanese sports journalism: genre personality and modern media production methods. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 4, Print- and Mediatechnologies, 2022, no. 1 (255), pp. 73–79 (In Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2520-6729-2022-255-1-73-79.
Abstract
The popular sports content of the Japanese media is analyzed, dedicated to professional baseball games, the World Cup, the Olympic Games. The purpose of the study is to identify the functions of sports information provided by Japanese journalists in various genre forms, and to determine the role of sports journalism in Japanese society. The content and genre specificity of materials of periodicals, audiovisual channels, network media of Japan about sports events are investigated. The main attention is paid to the analysis of sports publications of the quality newspaper “Asahi Shimbun”. The methods of work of Japanese sports journalists, popular genres and figurative and expressive means of language used by them, which contribute to increasing the interest of the audience in sports topics, are considered. The peculiarities of sports journalism in Japan are being studied for the first time in the Belarusian science of journalism. As a result of the study, the genre originality of Japanese sports journalism is revealed, which consists in combining the emotionally expressive expression of the subjective attitude of a journalist to competitions with their objective description in such forms as an information note, an analytical article and a portrait essay. The article is relevant for further research in international sports journalism.
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