Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan

Klappentext This book explores the practice of censorship in modern Japan, focusing on the most celebrated censorship trials of literature, film, and manga in the post WW II period. Zusammenfassung In 2002 a manga (comic book) was for the first time successfully charged with the crime of obscenity in the Japanese courts. In The Art of Censorship Kirsten Cather traces how this case represents the most recent in a long line of sensational landmark obscenity trials that have dotted the history of post-war Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Cather, Kisten Cather, Kirsten Cather Fischer
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2012
• EAN: 9780824835873
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3587-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous