The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan

by Kirsten Cather and Kirsten Cather Fischer

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 postwar Japan. The objects of these trials range from a highbrow literary translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover and modern adaptations and reprintings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824835875
• ISBN13: 9780824835873
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"