Media Accountability Systems of the field of publication in Japan: A case of Kodansha’s Boku ha papa wo korosukotonikimeta accident

Abstract

Claude-Jean Bertrand proposed a concept called Media Accountability Systems (MAS). The purpose of this article is to study MAS of the field of publication of Japan. Publishing industry in Japan introduced MAS by the reason of correspondence to the issue of obscenity. It found that such characteristics and roles of the “third party” has been discussed without being clarified.