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ABSTRACT
Japanese journalist Shiori Ito, known as a sexual assault survivor and icon of the #MeToo movement in Japan, has been depicted in many different lights by domestic and international media. This study illustrates the significant differences in the narrative the international media chose to (re)create, an act which involved translation from Japanese. Using this high-profile case, this study reveals the existence of culture- and institution-specific narratives as well as differences in the selection and deselection of information by each news producer to reinforce such narratives by applying framing as the theoretical framework for analysis.
性的暴力の被害を訴え、日本における#MeToo運動の象徴となったジャーナリストの伊藤詩織は、国内外のメディアによって様々な形で描かれてきた。本研究では、海外メディアの「ニュース・ナラティブ」に着目。世界的に注目を集めた事件がどのように報じられたのかを、フレーミングの概念を用いて分析し、文化や報道機関ごとに固有のニュース・ナラティブの存在と、そのようなナラティブを強化するためにニュースの送り手が行なっている情報の取捨選択について考察した。
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Notes
1 Euro amounts in this article are calculated based on the foreign exchange rates at the time each legal action took place.
2 Yamaguchi’s conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3eDyQnid8
Ito’s conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlK_PYxpauI
3 The same journal published a special issue titled ‘Culture and News Translation’ in 2015 and an untitled special issue of Across Languages and Cultures has been published in 2018 with a focus on methodological issues.
4 The proper name for the court that rendered the decision is Tokyo District Court; however, an initial search for ‘Shiori Ito’ and ‘Tokyo District Court’ returned a limited number of articles, so the key components of the name were entered separately.
5 The search was conducted in August 2020. Nexis Uni results can change over time due to the inclusion and exclusion of media outlets and/or recategorization.
6 Fifty-two international media texts (all in English) and 11 domestic media texts (six in English and five in Japanese).
7 Quotes from other individuals such as the lawyers or experts were excluded.
8 Due to space limitations, only direct quotes are presented. Punctuation has been changed from American to British conventions for consistency.
9 December 19 was a Thursday and TTs 1 and 6 make is clear that both Ito and Yamaguchi’s utterances came from the FCCJ conference.
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Kayo Matsushita
Kayo Matsushita is Associate Professor of Interpreting and Translation Studies at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. She worked as a staff writer for Japan’s leading newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, for 14 years, including three years in New York as a correspondent covering the United Nations. She later became a professional interpreter and has worked extensively with journalists from around the world, especially in their coverage of the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She is still active as a conference interpreter and has interpreted speeches by political leaders including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. As a researcher, she specializes in news translation and authored When News Travels East: Translation Practices by Japanese Newspapers (Leuven University Press, Citation2019). She earned her master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York and her doctorate in Intercultural Communication from Rikkyo University in Tokyo.