ABSTRACT
The power of General Mac Arthur, the Supreme Commander in Japan, was based on several documents. He preferred a system whereby the Japanese government would continue to be responsible for the execution of policies that were set down by scap. The Japanese press was highly centralized, however, since news was often forwarded from Domei and the large Tokyo papers to local papers in different parts of the country. The president of Domei and other representatives of press and radio were summoned to Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD), where "orders were precisely and forcefully presented". The meetings between CCD officers and the Japanese press became a regular affair. CCD used meetings to admonish but also to teach the Japanese what kind of press the Occupation authorities expected. At a meeting in October, CCD noted that the press had started to give more space to foreign news, and to discuss war crimes.
