History of Revision of Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association（JBA） Broadcast Standards

Abstract

　The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association （JBA） Broadcasting

Standards were established at the same time as the first commercial radio

started in Japan in 1951. It was not legal at first, but independently established

by commercial broadcasters in Japan born in the post-World War II democratic

movements.

　　Thereafter, the revised Broadcast Law requires that broadcasters establish

program standards and Japanese commercial broadcasters apply JBA Broadcast

Standards to their program standards and revise them repeatedly in accordance

with changes in society and the media environment.

　　This article explores the history and background of JBA Broadcast Standards,

and the autonomous and independent attitude of commercial broadcasters

in Japan that has always been criticized by both the politically powerful and

the general public based on various publications of JBA