After a short introduction to television, this time I am going to focus on more specific topic related the TV, “Culture”.

             These days the television has many other different meanings to our life, from my point of view, perhaps when Philo Farnsworth firstly press on the television, he has not conceive of the exquisite and multifunctional television transformed to recently. Not only for the evolution of the TV, but it also represents many things in people’s life.

Television is one of the fastest media to disseminate all the information and images to the public. Basically, what we always see on the TV are included news broadcast, documentary program, entertainment programs, shopping channel and advertisements. I had some discovery form Japanese TV broadcast based on varies programs they have. Shopping channels are running for 24hours every day. Whenever you want to buy something introducing on shopping channel, it is possible to deal with a phone call. Shopping channel is pretty popular among senior citizens and housewives. Japanese population ageing society became one of the most serious issues these days, Japan is one of the fastest ageing countries in the world, in 1950 there were 9.3 people under 20 for every person over 65. By 2025 this ratio is forecast to be 0.59 people under 20 for every person older than 65.[1] Young parents tends to avoid have too many children because they can’t afford a great amount of money spending on education rising commodity prices and taxes. Old people are able to live by receiving annuity from Japanese government. Also, housewives seemed as the most appropriate job for women in Japanese society after marriage. Late night, early morning is the relax time for some of housewives. After whole day facing child care and households, housewives in Japan could arrange their own time while other family members are sleeping.

In other channels, programs start from 5 o‘clock in the morning on the week days, what they mostly to do is to conclude the important news on every types of newspapers with a more relaxed mode, rather than News time, I thought it is more entertainment compare to the morning news live on neither BBC nor CNN. They bring out popular topic and make Japanese people give more attention to that area, such as they always introduce the most effective way to lose weight, including exercise, how to eat and what to wear in order to make you look skinny. To introduce the most prevalent fashion was also supported by young people. Therefore, we can understand that why Japanese people have a great attention to want they wear, how they look in their daily life. Personally, I thought the reason why most female in Japan follow fashion and been very thin is because of what they have been told when they got up in the morning is that what majority thought about the beautiful women is the skinny, fashionable and well make up.      

Reference

1 United Nations, 2004