Mayuko Watanabe

Mayuko Watanabae (渡辺 真由子 Mayuko Watanabe)
Born 1975
Aichi Prefecture
Education Keio University
Simon Fraser University
Occupation Journalist
Media Scholar

Mayuko Watanabe (渡辺 真由子 Watanabe Mayuko, born 1975) is an award-winning Japanese journalist and media scholar specialized in media literacy, gender and sexuality.[1] She has been a Senior Researcher at Keio University Research Institute. Her research interest through nearly 20 years of career including as a TV news reporter has been the way of regulatory policy of obscene expressions. She has published research and provided media commentary on the topics of media communication and literacy of Japanese obscene content.

Works

Watanabe works on the Japanese Government to apply a concept of "Dignity in Obscene Expression" to its regulatory policy. She has served as a lecturer of Internet moral education for Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and also as a lecturer of human rights for Ministry of Justice.[2]

Publications

Selected articles

Information and Communications Policy Review No.10 March 2015

Books

Awards

Mayuko Watanabe has received prestigious awards as a director of Radio documentary Suicide of 16 years old boy- What did the bereaved family fight against?

References

  1. "Japan struggles to deal with child suicides", Japan Today, December 31, 2010
  2. "Symposium on Internet and Human rights", The Ministry of Justice, Japan, October 20, 2013
  3. "NAB Awards 2000"

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