JAPANESE CULTURE

Technology (TV) Affecting or Changing Japanese Culture

Technology (TV) Affecting or Changing Japanese Culture

Introduction

Regardless of race, religion, sex, age or socioeconomic status of individuals, Japanese society has united around shared cultural experience of television. According to the report Nielson, 1985, Japanese school children spend weekly twenty-six hours and twenty minutes on average watching television. Singer and Singer noted that Japanese children spend more time watching television than doing any other activity except sleeping.

The impact of television on contemporary Japanese society shows that most adults use television to lack of company to not feel alone. It happens that the TV show made strategic moves such as government policies or characterizations of different social status and thus manages to create a body of knowledge that the audience shares.

The influence of television on Japanese children, their development and their relationships are very important has argued that television, showing the harsh realities of life for Japanese children, has changed the nature of the childhood. Moreover, the media drive home ideas and perceptions, which often at odds with Japanese parental values.

Impact: TV violence and aggressive behavior

The impact of television on contemporary Japanese's society can have its point of entry into the cultural impact those media and communication technologies. This impact is proposing a language that crosses on Japanese society. The media generally used for specific purposes, the audience will choose the medium and the content according to their own interests and demands.

Currently, the issue of violence on television has generated great concern, because they encourage aggressive behavior on Japanese children, which spend many hours in front of TV watching Japanese children's programs, or adult, with the first six times more aggressive. Among the violent acts that are viewed by children are: murder, war, punching, beating, stabbing, shooting, kicking, violent accidents and destruction of ...