Japanese Politicians' Rhetorical and Indirect Speech: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Usage

Ken Kinoshita (Ph. D., Doshisha University, Japan) is an associate professor at the Faculty of Socio-Environmental Studies, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan. His research focuses on the Japanese parliament, local councils, and political communication. He has published several articles and books related to the interface of parliament and political communication, including: Bicameral theory (in Japanese, 2015), Why politicians don't answer questions? (in Japanese, 2018), How to advance regional legislative reform (in Japanese, 2020), and Rhetoric of politicians (in Japanese, 2022).

Ken Kinoshita（博士，同志社大學，日本）是福岡工業大學社會環境研究院的副教授。他的研究專注於日本國會、地方議會及政治溝通。他已發表多篇與國會及政治溝通交界相關的文章和書籍，包括：《兩院制理論》（日文，2015年）、《為什麼政治人物不回答問題？》（日文，2018年）、《如何推進地方立法改革》（日文，2020年）以及《政治人物的修辭》（日文，2022年）。