British academic working in the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Teaching and research on Japan's mass media industries.

Former television news camera operator, studio technician, program director etc.

Long connection with Japan, good levels of literacy in English and Japanese, also some Castilian Spanish (getting rustier every year!)

Other interests include book and page design, fonts and writing, visual communication, colour and composition in images, visual semiotics.

Researcher ID ORCID - 0000-0002-9963-3830

Publications

Koga-Browes, Scott P. (September 2009). Reading News Images in Japan: Visual Semiosis in the Context of Television Representation (Ph.D.). Sheffield.
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (2012). "At the Digital Watershed: Terrestrial Television Broadcasting in Japan". Japanese Studies. 32 (3): 445–468. doi:10.1080/10371397.2012.730482.
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (2013). "Social distance portrayed: television news in Japan and the UK". Visual Communication. 12 (1): 71–96. doi:10.1177/1470357212462323.
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (2015). "Camera angles in television news: Designed to communicate?". In Piazza, Roberta; Haarman, Louann; Caborn, Anne (eds.). Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (2017). "Diversity on a Global 30 `World Studies' Program". In Araki, Naoko; Senior, Kim (eds.). Diversity in Japanese Education. The Hague: Senses.
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (2019). "Kyoto City's Public `Radio Towers'". The Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies. 32 (1): 91–114.
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (2021). "Left and right in TV news images in Japan and the UK". Ritsumeikan Annual Review Of International Studies. 20: 33--55.
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (dec 2022). "The `home delivery' newspaper sales system as an impediment to digitalisation in Japan". Ritsumeikan annual review of international studies. 21: 29--56. doi:http://doi.org/10.34382/00017911. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |doi= (help)
Koga-Browes, Scott P. (2023). "Radio Towers - Interwar Japan's Public Radio System". Media History. 29 (2): 1–24. doi:10.1080/13688804.2023.2221273.