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      Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan
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      Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan

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      Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan book

      Edited ByRachael Hutchinson
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 18 April 2013
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203590935
      Pages 264
      eBook ISBN 9780203590935
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Hutchinson, R. (Ed.). (2013). Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203590935

      ABSTRACT

      Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has remained constant through these many upheavals has been the process of negotiation between censor and artist that can be seen across the cultural media of modern society.

      By exploring censorship in a number of different Japanese art forms – from popular music and kabuki performance through to fiction, poetry and film – across a range of historical periods, this book provides a striking picture of the pervasiveness and strength of Japanese censorship across a range of media; the similar tactics used by artists of different media to negotiate censorship boundaries; and how censors from different systems and time periods face many of the same problems and questions in their work. The essays in this collection highlight the complexities of the censorship process by investigating the responsibilities and choices of all four groups – artists, censors, audience and ideologues – in a wide range of case studies. The contributors shift the focus away from top-down suppression, towards the more complex negotiations involved in the many stages of an artistic work, all of which involve movement within boundaries, as well as testing of those boundaries, on the part of both artist and censor. Taken together, the essays in this book demonstrate that censorship at every stage involves an act of human judgment, in a context determined by political, economic and ideological factors.

      This book and its case studies provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of censorship and how these operate on both people and texts. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in Japanese studies, Japanese culture, society and history, and media studies more generally.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Introduction: negotiating censorship in modern Japan

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Censorship and patronage in Meiji kabuki theater

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Seditious obscenity/obscene seditions: the radical eroticism of Umehara Hokumei

      chapter 4|16 pages

      The censor as critic: Ogawa Chikagorō and popular music censorship in imperial Japan

      chapter 5|19 pages

      Kawabata’s wartime message in Beautiful Voyage (Utsukushii tabi)

      ByHIROMI TSUCHIYA DOLLASE

      chapter 6|19 pages

      Banned books in the hands of Japanese librarians: from Meiji to postwar

      chapter 7|21 pages

      Self-censorship: the case of wartime Japanese poetry

      chapter 8|20 pages

      Kurosawa Akira’s One Wonderful Sunday: censorship, context and counter-discursive film

      chapter 9|23 pages

      Censoring Tamura Taijirō’s Biography of a Prostitute (Shunpuden)

      ByELEANOR KERKHAM

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Censoring imperial honorifics: a linguistic analysis of Occupation censorship in newspapers and literature

      chapter 11|16 pages

      ‘Art’ il-legally defined? A legal and art historical analysis of Akasegawa Genpei’s Model Thousand-yen Note Incident

      chapter 12|20 pages

      Parodying the censor and censoring parody in modern Japan

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