ABSTRACT
The Japan-Korea solidarity movement illustrates the challenges of the new media environment, as established activists who once successfully utilised print media to build a sense of solidarity now face possible cessation due to their lack of capacity to navigate the new era. Since the late-1990s, however, a xenophobic right-wing movement has been on the rise in Japan, threatening the legacies of the Japan-Korea solidarity movement. This chapter examines recent challenges from the upsurge of xenophobic right-wing movements to the legacies of the solidarity movement. It specifically focuses on how media practices of activists and media strategies of social movements have changed as the media environment and political atmosphere is altering. Rucht's quadruple 'A' model on media strategies of social movements will be used to compare the strategies of the Japan-Korea solidarity movement in the 1970s and 1980s with the strategies of the movement's descendant activists and those of a rising right-wing movement since the 1990s.
