Role of Media and Governance for Bridging Socio-Political Barriers: Experiences of Japan & Bangladesh

One of the vexatious issues in the twenty first century is media and governance for ensuring human security and freedom. Japan leads the world in the information revolution and in breadth of coverage and sophistication of the media. The role of media and governance in Japan is diversified in nature and encroaches its reality to address the socio-political barriers. Japan’s Media and governance could ensure social securities and freedom for the national interest. Narrow understanding of national concentration, antagonism and distrust are mostly responsible for the present situation of media and governance in Bangladesh. Bangladesh could ensure the socio-political barriers based on Japan’s model to revive the media and governance issues for regional cooperation. This paper advocates some pronged strategy and policy suggestions which could improve to overcome the constraints of media and governance and open new windows for Bangladesh. The process of governance reforms in Japan is one of the junctions to the universal customary. This paper also attempts to analyze the determinants between governance and media that surely leads a country to the way of socio-political, cultural and economic advancements. Bangladesh should have a clear vision for future so that it can set a common stage of hopes and aspirations of the people by combating all the threats to secure media and governance for human security.