Social Ideology in Japan: Failling Young Generation

Selecting artifact
Japanese Newspaper Editorial article addressing young people need to be more enegetic.
Analyzing an artifact
1. Reconstructing the context
a. Rhetor: Yomiuri shinbun is a more conservative newspaper. Rhetorical philosphey is..... Around this time, many there were some kind of ideology that young people were seen as failer in Japan. Yomiuri is trying to show how young people are in danger and need to change.
b. Occasion:When this rhetoric occured, Japan had ideology that young are looser. Many politicisan, famous writer started to argue how young people are not active, and they need to change. They are insulting young people. Due to ressesion, there are so many young peopel who doesn't have jobs and young homless too. These economic and social background made the ideology.
c. Audience: The audience is people who reads the newspaper, meaning, people in Japan, but not young kids, but mostly adult, college students, or maybe some highschool student as well. So althought Yomiuri is talking about school kids, they are not talking to them, but talking to adult to make them to help the young people. Newspaper are seen to be credible, but some people criticize Yomiuri because it is conservative. Audience has knowledge about young's decline because that is cultural ideology. Most of adult agree with Yomiuri's aticle because of cultural ideology. And since the Yomiuri argu that this si national danger, audience's attitude will be more serious.
2. application of the five canons to the artifact
a.Invention. External proof: such as testimonies and statistics. The evidence works for the audience's nationalistic belief.
These evidence is consisted to the thesis? No. It shows evidece that shows Young's un-patoriotic attitude, and how young people are so decling and disappointing. However, the article missing the point that adults are the one who teaches tyoung. Article basically use young people as scape goat to try to unit patorioric idea.
b.Organization.
c.Style.
d.Memory
e.Delivery
3. assessing the impact of the artifact on the audience
Formulating a research question
Did the rhetor used the avairable means of persuasion to evoke the intended response from the audience?
Writing Essay
Introduction:
Since couple years ago, Japan has hold controversial debate over the nature of young generation. Many famous writes, politcisian, commentators has been talking about how young people has been changed as generation changes. As and for the sake of the controversies heat up, media started to write about this issue. In this essay, I will explore media’s arguments on the young generation issue to try to find the appeal of media.
Justification:
Although this issue and my analysis narrow the audience, it is important for people live in Japan. For it is social ideologu developed recent, we don’t really know the truth. Also, analyzing media’s article is particulary important because media are those who has power to shape social ideologies.
There are four articles I picked: Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi, and Kyoto newspapers.
Historical Contexts
This social ideologies comes from Japanese economic and cultural background. Japan has fall in recession around 2000. Many young people become homeless. A lot of young lives with their parents, bnot work, receive some pocket money, and do their hobbies. Also, Japanese unique culture of Otaku is another background of this issue. Otak, is seen a lot in young people, and they like to stay in home, play video game, and non-social. Therefore, they have some negative image in society. And most of them are seen in young people. Due to these background, many adults looking and said that how young people has changed from past. The one big reasn why media started to write about young people is based on one incident, which young man, a Otaku, murdered. From this issue, how media look young becomes obvious and against. Since media started to report, more people started to argues, and it finally created it as social ideology.
Yomiuri Weekly in fact talked report the incident, and it shows subjectivity. Although it is newspaper report which expected to be objective, the reporter argued his subjectivity criticinging young people . He argued that by using 2 quotation.